We exhibit programs that illustrate the power of Lisp as a language for expressing the design and organization of computational systems. The examples are chosen to highlight the importance of abstraction in program design and to draw attention to the use of procedures to express abstractions.
%0 Report
%1 abelson1987lisp
%A Abelson, H.
%A Sussman, G.J.
%D 1987
%K abstraction design language lisp progamming representation scheme
%N AIM-986
%T Lisp: A language for stratified design
%U http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6064
%X We exhibit programs that illustrate the power of Lisp as a language for expressing the design and organization of computational systems. The examples are chosen to highlight the importance of abstraction in program design and to draw attention to the use of procedures to express abstractions.
@techreport{abelson1987lisp,
abstract = {We exhibit programs that illustrate the power of Lisp as a language for expressing the design and organization of computational systems. The examples are chosen to highlight the importance of abstraction in program design and to draw attention to the use of procedures to express abstractions.},
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author = {Abelson, H. and Sussman, G.J.},
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institution = {MIT},
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keywords = {abstraction design language lisp progamming representation scheme},
number = {AIM-986},
timestamp = {2010-07-26T17:45:13.000+0200},
title = {Lisp: A language for stratified design},
type = {AI Memo },
url = {http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6064},
year = 1987
}