From personal experience, a functional programming style helps one to reason with the math used in artificial intelligence. This might be why lisp is considered one of the original AI languages. The power of being able to express the networks as purely lists of numbers is amazing in my opinion.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I actually think the reason LISP was created was for AI.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I actually think the reason LISP was created was for AI.