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i've been working on the proposal again this morning. i want to get
this thing finished as soon as possible. if we can't get funding then
something is very wrong.

i got  a couple of old contracts---mcCarthy's and Feldman's -- to help
set the style and format (obviously pll.pro needs revision)

i'm revising the  editing section. its distasteful to have to say
interlisp is the "best", but tactless to say "gawd!! whota krok"
(which it is). 

The NSF proposal has a section on "societal relevance"
so besides the software problem, it seems CAI should be touted.
i'm expanding that.

the basic difficulty is still languages:

lisp:
	too weak in data structures
	not "socially relevant"...
	   we really should try a "real language".

pascal: too ad-hoc
	too much like pl-1 and Algol
	i read the habermann crap; it seems to me he's complaining 
	   about the wrong things. --syntatic hacks

pl1:	not likely

el1: 	is on the right track, but that's Harvard's toy.


so an initial subset of PASCAL seems appropriate. It looks
like we'd better pick one soon before it changes again. I thought
one of the benefits was compatibility, but there's DEC-PASCAL
and CDC-PASCAL and Concurrent-PASCAL, and ...


I'll be in again tomorrow to revise LISP manuscript for publisher.