Agreed, that was the only sentence in the article that gave me pause -- a language having been used extensively for (failed!) attempts at A.I. does not make it

Agreed, that was the only sentence in the article that gave me pause -- a language having been used extensively for (failed!) attempts at A.I. does not make it a great A.I. language. Maybe we'd have general purpose A.I. by now if we didn't waste a decade with LISPs; the secret has been there in assembler all along!