jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) (06/11/90)
In article <15329@dime.cs.umass.edu> pop@cs.umass.edu () writes: >It should be noted that the "tuples", referred to in in the POP-2 manual >are NOT items, as used in the technical sense of that manual. I.e. they >do not have the status accorded to items in the "Items Charter of >Rights" [Popplestone 1968] (e.g. they cannot be the value of variables), >but instead are sequences of values existing on the open stack. >Popplestone R.J.[1968] "The Design Philosophy of POP-2", > Machine Intelligence 3, (Ed.D.Michie) Edinburgh University Press. Pop -- A while ago, I was trying to trace back the "Bill of Rights" idea and got as far as "The Design Philosophy of POP-2". I was wondering if the idea had any earlier history. I've tried asking various people here at Ed, but now that we have you on the net... Jeff Dalton, JANET: J.Dalton@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: J.Dalton%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!J.Dalton