Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!JAY@USC-ECLC From: JAY@USC-ECLC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: HFELISP Message-ID: <3527@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 12:42:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3527 Posted: Wed Jul 27 12:42:00 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 31-Jul-83 20:09:46 EDT Lines: 19 From: JayHFELISP (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'