A Retrospective onParadigms of AI ProgrammingIf you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses. On [p. 25] of PAIP I list eight important factors that make Lisp a good language for AI applications, and remarked that mostly these allow a programmer to delay making decisions. Let's look at how Lisp compares to, say, Java and Python in terms of these eight factors:Built-in Support for Lists. Python's object model is the same as Lisp's, but Python does not allow optional type declarations as Lisp does. Python's object model is the same as Lisp's, but Python does not allow optional type declarations as Lisp does.