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Why has a language like LISP become so dominant in the field of Artifical Intelligence?

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Lisp (as its name suggests) allows you to use lists very well.

Lisp is also dynamically typed.

These two allow you to make things quickly, and there really suited to processing lists. (which is what you do in ai).

Also, Lisp makes it very easy to use for stuff like predicate logic. Also, I've found it fairly easy to build data structures like trees and stuff in Lisp.

As for Lisp being connected to AI - that is an association from back in the mists of time. Lisp was invented by John McCarthy, who happened to be teaching AI at the time - it therefore got used a lot for AI, and so it became associated with AI.

Lisp embodied nine new ideas:

1. Conditionals. A conditional is an if-then-else construct. We take these for granted now. They were invented by McCarthy in the course of developing Lisp. (Fortran at that time only had a conditional goto, ...

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