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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
Cc: info-ada@ada20.isi.edu

>	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
	...!steinmetz!crd!blackje

	

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1987-08-07 14:34 Adathink PETCHER%SVDSD
1987-08-07  4:08 Adathink larry
1987-08-11 17:55 ` Adathink Ted Jardine
1987-08-13 16:17   ` Adathink Kent Paul Dolan
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