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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest
Subject: Re: Gibber in AI, social sciences, etc.
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Date: 6 May 88 02:53:44 GMT
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In article <050388.124141.sowa@ibm.com>, SOWA@IBM.COM (John Sowa) writes:
> The dialog between LISPers and Prologers is no
> more meaningful than the dialog between Catholics and Protestants in
> Northern Ireland.
> John Sowa

Er, just what dialogue between LISPers and Prologers are you talking about?
Here at Quintus (makers of the finest Prolog system in the known Universe)
our attitude to Lisp is "what good ideas can we steal".  I refer to my copy
of CLtL about once a day.  ZYX like Lisp so much they've even imitated its
syntax.  Sussex (makers of PopLog) think the great thing about their product
is _very_ close coupling between Lisp, Prolog, and Pop.  I suspect that
someone who argues for (Lisp|Prolog) on the grounds that (Prolog|Lisp) is
bad doesn't understand either.