> His first attempt at doing the AI book using Java was a failure because it's verbosity and lack of features. Students found the Python version much easier to

> His first attempt at doing the AI book using Java was a failure because it's verbosity and lack of features. Students found the Python version much easier to comprehend than the Lisp one. Sigh. Is that the nature of the beast in lisp? To me, it has always been a difficult language to sell to more "traditional" minded devs.