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Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)

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dahart ◴[] No.41860159[source]
> Why is most AI work done in Lisp?

That’s changed, of course, but it remained true for at least another 15 or 20 years after this article was written and then changed rather quickly, perhaps cemented with deep neural networks and GPUs.

Other than running the emacs ecosystem, what else is Lisp being used for commonly these days?

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1. knbknb ◴[] No.41866917[source]
Some computer science departments (and their MOOCs) use Lisp Dialects "Racket" and "Scheme" as a Teaching Language . For example, IDE DrRacket has an innovative language preselection feature that allows students to start out with a "Beginning Student Language".

https://www.racket-lang.org/