Possibility of using Java instead of Lisp on first project

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

One student requested for permission to use Java instead of Lisp for doing 
the first project.
This particular student made the case that he/she  will have so much 
trouble getting accustomed to lisp that he/she is not
going to be able to learn from project 1.

To be uniform across the class, I am willing to allow Java instead of lisp 
for this project under the following conditions:

1. There will be a penalty (approximately 20-30%) for not using lisp (this 
is to be fair to people who invested the time
    and effort to get re-acquainted with lisp; and to acknowledge the fact 
that the project 1 was kept simple to make up for
    lisp deficiencies...)

2. We will not be responsible for any java programming support  (we "may" 
be able to provide skeletal code that looks sort of equivalent to
    the lisp code I provided, but you may still have to make-up for 
differences between Lisp and Java).


If you think you really want to have the flexibility to use Java, please 
let me know as soon as possible.


Rao
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