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From: dwt@EECS.UMICH.EDU (David West)
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Subject: Re: Expert System references...
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Date: 14 Dec 87 17:56:27 GMT
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In article <8712100816.AA09612@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WURST@UCONNVM.BITNET writes:
>
>          I am a graduate student in Computer Science [...]
>                                   I plan to write the system twice,
>     once in LISP, and once in PROLOG, and then compare the relative
>     merits of each language for expert systems.
>          Can anyone suggest some references to get me started?  

 Unless you are already proficient in both languages, what you are likely to
 end up comparing is your relative understanding of the two languages.  For
 this reason I think that your first reference to read should be Richard
 O'Keefe's article "Prolog and LISP Compared?" in SIGPLAN Notices, about 1984.
 This is a critique of an article by someone else in which the someone else
 fell into precisely the above-mentioned trap.
 (That title and date are approximate, but close.)

  David West                  dwt@zippy.eecs.umich.edu