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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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