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		The problem of duplication  of human time, cpu time,
and  core, because of  poor communication, is  one of  my pet peeves.
Although I personally can't use  the table of Prime numbers, I  would
support  the  establishment of  an  indexed  file of  commonly-needed
knowledge   (dictionaries,  numerical  tables,  common  LISP  editing
macros, useful SAIL I/O routines, etc.)

Sometime this week  I'll try  to think up some more examples of  what
would be nice to have around in such a facility, and try to dredge up
any files, functions, etc. that could fit in.

An interesting kind  of entry  would be a  NEGATIVE one:  a bunch  of
warnings of very common  mistakes, kinds of computations NOT  to try,
etc.   This would have to be carefully done  to make it worth keeping
as an active system entry (still useful, though less  exciting, would
be to collect such "hard lessons" into a booklet. A low-level example
of this  is "doing MAPCONC x <destructive function>".  A higher-level
example is "using LISP for number-crunching type work".
 
Regards, Doug Lenat