Hello, I'm a Lisp hacker. You may know me from my greatest hits, including "The parentheses are not an issue," "It's not intrinsically for AI," and "You just used a forum written in Lisp to post that comment saying nothing is written in Lisp."
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Were you ever tempted by any flavour of ML?
1980s-style AI, where "dog" was a cons cell, yes. But I know nothing about the statistical type that actually works.
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I'm honoured to get a reply. I was curious about your thoughts on the Robert Milner family of languages.
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Oh, that ML. Not very. Strong typing seems to me one of those ideas like object-oriented programming that's great for certain problems (proving stuff about programs, and GUIs, respectively) but not as widely useful as its proponents believe.
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