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Subject: HFELISP
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Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 12:42:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 27 12:42:00 1983
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From:  Jay 


        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'