JAY@USC-ECLC@sri-unix.UUCP (07/27/83)
From: Jay <JAY@USC-ECLC>
HFELISP (Heffer Lisp) HUMAN FACTOR ENGINEERED LISP
ABSTRACT
HFE sugests that the more complicated features of (common) Lisp are
dangerous, and hard to understand. As a result a number of Fortran,
Cobol, and 370 assembler programmers got together with a housewife.
They pared Lisp down to, what we belive to be, a much simpler and more
understandable system. The system includes only the primitives CONS,
READ, and PRINT. However CONS was restricted to only take an atom for
the first argument, and a onelevel list for the second. Since all
lists are onelevel they also did away with parenthesis. All the
primitives were coded in ADA and this new lisp is being considered as
the DOD's AI language.
j'MONTALVO%MIT-OZ@MIT-ML@sri-unix.UUCP (08/10/83)
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