Superficial Intelligence

I just finished writing my first two programs in LISP for my Artificial Intelligence class. The same functions would have taken me probably about an hour in Java. But instead, it took me a few days and whole lot of hours to get them working in LISP. The problem isn't that LISP is a bad language, but that my knowledge of it was horrible. I say "was" because I believe I have improved with this assignment. LISP is actually a very flexible and powerful language. And a very good one to know if you are interested in Artificial Intelligence. But if you are used to procedural languages like I am, your first few tries with the language may probably be filled with confusion and frustration. I wish good luck to all of those who dare embark in the journey of LISP.