[net.lang] lisp vs prolog ?

wei@princeton.UUCP (P Wei) (08/16/85)

can anyone suggest me which one to 
 learn for these two ai 
language? lisp vs prolog====america vs japan ?
 can these two become general purpose language ?
(my goal is to develope an interactive program such that the
main routine receive a e.g. formula from user then send the 
'machine code' to another block to complete another task).