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by lispm 4428 days ago
> the unique ability of Lisp to solve this problem

Problem solving and algorithms exist independent of programming languages.

What's unique to this version here, is the use of a code generator.

http://www.weitz.de/files/einstein-minimize.lisp

> So this article could have been 'A C solution to "Einsteins Riddle"' if C had been chosen as the language.

The code would have looked vastly different.