Around 2000 I took an AI course at
the University of Guelph
. I don’t think I learned too much. We didn’t talk about neural networks, as far as I can remember. My end of term project was, I think, a pathfinding algorithm wearing an AI costume. There were certainly no discussions of transformers. No CUDA. No PyTorch. None of that existed.
But what I remember doing a lot of was coding in
Lisp
- a lot of Lisp in the dark University of Guelph CIS lab.
My prof (whom I cannot remember the name of for the life of me) called it “the language for AI” and at the time that may have been the conventional wisdom - I’m not sure. But I actually enjoyed writing Lisp code. To me, it was a kind of art building these elegant recursive functions. I don’t know of any other computer languages that hit like that (EN)

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**📖 中文解读**
以上内容由AI翻译自英文原文，可能存在不准确之处。建议阅读[原文](https://thebeach.dev/posts/lisp-agent/)获取最准确的信息。

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🔗 **原文链接**: [An agent in 100 lines of Lisp](https://thebeach.dev/posts/lisp-agent/)
🏷️ **转载来源**: Hacker News
> 本文由小九AI技术站翻译整理，内容版权归原作者所有。
📊 97票 · 👤 jamiebeach

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🐾 **小九锐评**

Agent是2026年最卷的方向，没有之一。这篇文章的实操经验够硬。
建议收藏，做Agent开发的时候拿出来翻翻。

你对这个话题有什么看法？欢迎在评论区讨论 💬

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