milazzo.rice%Rand-Relay@sri-unix.UUCP (07/28/83)
From: Paul.Milazzo <milazzo.rice@Rand-Relay>
When Rice University got its first VAX, a friend of mine and I set
about porting a production system based game playing program to Franz
Lisp from Cambridge Lisp running on an IBM 370. We used, as I recall,
a combination of Emacs macros (to change lexical constructs) and a
LISP program (to translate program constructs). The technique was not
an elegant one, nor was it particularly general, but it gives me good
reason to think that the LISP translator Fred proposes is far from
impossible. It also points out that implementation superiority is not
the only reason for choosing one LISP over another.
Paul Milazzo <milazzo.rice@Rand-Relay>
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
Rice University, Houston, TX
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P.S. Fred: After living in Texas for eight years, I'm still not
sure I could interpret a Texan's remarks for a New Yorker.
The dialect is easy to understand, but the concepts are all
different...
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