From: blackje%sungod.tcpip@ge-crd.arpa
Subject: Re: Adathink
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 20:01:00 EDT [thread overview]
Date: Fri Aug 7 20:01:00 1987
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From: emmett black <blackje@sungod>
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To: PETCHER%SVDSD@eg.ti.com@relay.cs.net
Subject: Re: Adathink
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> From: PETCHER%SVDSD%eg.ti.com@RELAY.CS.NET
> Malcolm Petcher
>
> I talked to some folks a while back who were doing algorithm design and
> testing in LISP then converting to JOVIAL for actual implementation. They
> claimed to be experiencing extremely high productivity using this method. In
> playing with LISP myself I found that, inspite of its striking dissimilarity
> from any "conventional" (procedural?) language, thinking out a process in LISP
> gave me a much clearer picture of how to think about that process regardless
> of language.
Funniest thing... the entire IAW (Interactive Ada Workstation)
is prototyped in LISP!
--Emmett
BlackJE@GE-CRD.Ada
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