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From: magi@deepthot.UUCP (David Wiseman)
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Subject: "C" for the Fifth Generation
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Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 14:32:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 14 14:32:23 1984
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		"HAI-c"
	"C" for the Fifth Generation

While the overall goals of the current Japanese 
research effort in the area of artificial intelligence are
well known, little has been revealed in the way of specific
"product" developments. With the rising popularity of UNIX
as the operating system for micro-computers, there has been
great research interest, both academic and corporate, in
developing a fifth generation equivalent of "C", the
language and foundation of this versatile system. The
Japanese have in the past expressed interest in "C" and, in a
soon to be released article, will announce formal plans to
create a fifth generation "C", tentatively called "HAI-c".

Not much is currently known about the nature or content
of the project; however, inside sources claim that the
Japanese have always admired the "C" language for many
qualities that are absent from other more familiar
occidental languages, such as COBOL and PL/I. The language
is structured and concise but is capable of expressing a
myriad of almost mystical low-level programming concepts.
This last problem has burdened Japanese technocrats for
years; there has been no language which properly expresses
the workings of the oriental mind.

The fifth generation "C" is purported to be based on
the ancient "haiku" poetry. This will be the perfect
marriage of the so-called "oriental mind" with current
software techniques. All functions and procedures will be 3
lines long and perfectly self-documenting. Programs will,
for the first time, be profound and meaningful. The art
community is said to be totally enthralled with the idea of
computer programming raised to a literary level. Some
western analysts are not so keen.

We present here a small pre-release of a typical UNIX i/o
driver and leave it to the reader to sit in either eager
anticipation or total fear of what may eventually befall us.

	An anxious frog waits
	On an unobtrusive path
	The fly disappears++.


The presentation of this material was made possible by a grant
from deepthot!changft.

magi (David Wiseman @ UWO Comp Sci, London Canada)