Why don't people like lisp?

Jon S. Anthony j-anthony at rcn.com
Thu Oct 23 18:03:37 EDT 2003


Joe Marshall <jrm at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> Let's take on something more complicated.  A lot more complicated.
> 
> Suppose I am solving problems that are best expressed
> non-deterministically, and I need a domain language that has the
> following non-deterministic constructs:
>...
> This is a tricky problem, but one approach in Lisp is to make
> ALL-VALUES and EITHER be rather complicated macros.

This is the well known standard approach.

>...
> How would one approach this in Python?

Give up and call out to a Prolog interpreter.

/Jon




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