From espillar at me.com Sat Sep 19 16:00:15 2009 From: espillar at me.com (Earl Spillar) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:00:15 -0600 Subject: [Abqlispscheme] ABQ Lisp Scheme Tomorrow! Message-ID: All, Meeting tomorrow, 2 PM, High performance computer center! Jeff Barnettt will be speaking: Here an extract from an email he sent on the list a while ago: "The Talk; My talk will be about CRISP (Crunching Lisp), a Lisp-like system that was designed and implemented circa 1971 to support development of speech understanding systems. (In other words, DARPA paid for this bit of Lisp lore through their Speech Understanding Research program.) CRISP provided many interesting program constructs including the following: a variety of "spaghetti" stacks, unusual control structures including coroutines in the context of the "spaghetti", lots of data structures including cons nodes that had one, ..., or eight cells, data types, slick naming mechanisms, and flexible memory management techniques. CRISP was designed to be used by medium to large groups of implementors and many of the mechanisms were there to keep them out of each other's hair (and namespaces). The talk will provide some historic context as well as a technical description of one of the many freaks in the Lisp Family tree." See you tomorrow- E Spillar espillar at mac.com "Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics." - L. Peter Deutsch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailer.hpc.unm.edu/pipermail/abqlispscheme/attachments/20090919/f8837183/attachment.htm