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\F4COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT\←L\-R\/'7;\+R\→.\→S   Telephone:
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\F1\COct 1,1974



Dr. Franklin Fuller, Chairman
Department of Mathematics
San Jose State University
San Jose, Cal


Dear Dr Fuller:

\JI am enclosing a table of contents and index from a book which I am 
currently writing. The book will be an upperdivision and/or beginning
graduate student text on programming language design and specification.
The book is a definitive study of LISP, spanning material from 
introductory
syntax specification to the Scott-Strachey approach to semantics and 
models for the λ-calculus.

The current manuscript covers LISP from at least four distinct vantage points:
\F2 (a) \F1the mechanics of the language, data structures and recursive programming;
\F2 (b) \F1semantics and mathematical theory of computation;
\F2 (c) \F1questions of implementation, symbol tables, gargage collectors, and machines; 
and \F2 (d) \F1compilation algorithms and assemblers;
with a final chapter
applying the ideas gleaned from LISP to the design of a clean and powerful 
extension of LISP.

The book grew from my ten years knowledge of programming and implementing of
LISP; the current manuscript was developed in two years of teaching at UCLA,
a graduate reading course at Stanford, and a graduate workshop at UC Santa Cruz 
plus much of my current research interest here at the AI Labs.
The manuscript has been reviewed very favorably by many members of the
research communities at Stanford, University of Utah, and Xerox PARC; and
many of the students at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz.

Finally the purpose of this letter: I will again be teaching the material
at the UCSC workshop, but since I consider the majority of the material foundational
to the field, and therefore primarily undergraduate, I would like to present
this revised text to such students.  I would volunteer my time, though I
certainly would not object to being paid.

If this proposal has appeal to your department I  would be glad to 
discuss it further.\.
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Yours sincerely,



John R. Allen
Research Associate
Computer Science Dept
Artificial Intelligence Labs

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