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Knowledge-based systems, Lisp, and very high level implementation languages*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Eric Sandewall
Eric Sandewall
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Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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Abstract

It is usually agreed that programming languages for implementing (other) programming languages, or ‘implementation languages’, should be simple low-level languages which are close to the machine code and to the operating system. In this paper it is argued that a very high level implementation language is a good idea, of particular importance for knowledge-based systems, and that Lisp (as a language and as a system) is very well suited to be a very high level implementation language. The significance of special-purpose programming languages is also discussed, and the requirements that they have for a very high level implementation language are considered.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 147 - 155
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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