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The Interleaf 5 (15) desktop publishing software provides a powerful customization environment based on Lisp. A small development team, including the author, used this environment to build a tightly integrated 15 user interface (UI) for Interleaf's ...

SENEX is a computer program in the domain of molecular pathology. The application allows an individual to ask a sequence of questions in a single interactive session, thereby facilitating the development and testing of several hypotheses in a short ...

We examine the integration of Lisp and C in a commercial application, with a view towards the "proper place" of each language in large, practical applications in general. Topics addressed include portability, flexibility, efficiency, compactness, and ...

In the context of the actual trends towards downsizing and client-server architectures, new opportunities and also new requirements to integrate innovative solutions into conventional environments arise. In the future workstations will not just handle ...

The paper describes the use of object-oriented techniques throughout all layers of software, in the design and the implementation phase. These techniques increase the productivity of the software engineer as well as the user's benefit from the ...

The current secondary school computer science curriculum, which culminates in the AP exam, provides students with a misleading picture of the discipline, and many young thinkers are turned off by the rigidity and pettiness of syntax-heavy languages like ...

A primary mission of the Technology Modeling and Assessment group (A-7) of the Analysis Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory is to support the Department of Energy in performing analysis of both existing and future facilities that comprise the ...