First I have to say that I really respect the result you have got and the effort you have spent. It obviously helped your project, and might help others.

I realize Perl's power in certain AI application areas, especailly those areas that heavily reply on a language's ability to process "symbolic language", and Perl's strong regexp support can really help, at least certain portion of such an AI application.

But in general, I am very suspicious about programming language conversion. Especially from a language that has specially targetted application area, to a general language like Perl. The need or motivation of such coversion, most likely, indicates that the choice of Lisp was wrong at the beginning.

It is not a surprise to see that Lisp and Perl have common components and functionalities between them, but who not? To be able to convert a program, line by line, from one language to another, is probably not difficult, but I don't think anybody can straightly summarize and generalize the wisdom and skill of using the target language (in this case, Perl).

Although Perl can be used for almost everything, AI was never the targeted area for Perl, but AI is one of the main targeted area for Lisp.

In reply to Re: Lisp to Perl compilation by pg
in thread Lisp to Perl compilation by hhdave

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