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T: a dialect of Lisp or LAMBDA: The ultimate software tool

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Jonathan A. Rees,

Norman I. Adams IVAuthors Info & Claims

LFP '82: Proceedings of the 1982 ACM symposium on LISP and functional programming

Pages 114 - 122

https://doi.org/10.1145/800068.802142

Published: 15 August 1982 Publication History

Abstract

The T project is an experiment in language design and implementation. Its purpose is to test the thesis developed by Steele and Sussman in their series of papers about the Scheme language: that Scheme may be used as the basis for a practical programming language of exceptional expressive power; and, that implementations of Scheme could perform better than other Lisp systems, and competitively with implementations of programming languages, such as C and Bliss, which are usually considered to be inherently more efficient than Lisp on conventional machine architectures. We are developing a portable implementation of T, currently targeted for the VAX under the Unix and VMS operating systems and for the Apollo, a MC68000-based workstation.

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T: a dialect of Lisp or LAMBDA: The ultimate software tool
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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LFP '82: Proceedings of the 1982 ACM symposium on LISP and functional programming

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