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From: nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Is this the end of the lisp wave?
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Date: 15 Jan 91 09:06:08 GMT
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     LISP, in its grander forms, was intended to support an environment
in which everything was fluid, in which programs could modify themselves,
examine their own inner workings in a reasonable representation,
and in which a program could create new sections of program in an 
integrated way.  The dream was of programs that used these facilities
to improve themselves.  Lenat's AM and Eurisko actually did so; few
other programs ever did.

     Unfortunately, that didn't seem to lead much of anywhere.

					John Nagle