No painful switching is intended; for Norvig's purposes there are Lisp programmers taking an AI course and Python programmers taking an AI course, and both grou

No painful switching is intended; for Norvig's purposes there are Lisp programmers taking an AI course and Python programmers taking an AI course, and both groups should be able to follow examples in a language they know, without stumbling. Only their teachers need to adjust to the updated code examples in Norvig's updated book, and this summary is a very nice introduction to the main differences between two basically similar languages. When and whether students should learn Lisp, Python, neither, or both is an entirely different issue.