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Dear Jim:

Enclosed are three papers

Mike Burke: "The LISP Steamroller"

Jim Scmmolze:  "Guidelines  for choosing  an  Object-oriented  programming
style in lisp"

John Allen: "The Bankruptcy of BASIC"

and one fine high-quality outline of the LISP/Object-Oriented tutorial.

There is also a paper in the mail from Bil(sic) Lewis on natural  language
processing. i'm including the next version in case you'd like a preview of
the paper.


Also, this  morning i  received  an abstract  from  Bruce Roberts  and  Al
Stevens of BBN. They'd  told me they  were working on  one, but I  thought
they'd given up (more  about this topic later).   The abstract looks  good
and with a flashy  video tape, it  should be a  hit...( I understand  Fred
Lakin is submitting a paper ...  that should be good as well as graphic...
but I  haven't been  home enough  lately  to call  him ...will  try  later
today..).   Anyway,  if  the  Stevens/Roberts  paper  is  too  late  as  a
"presented paper" --i  expect to get  it through the  net next week--  i'd
like to include it in the tutorial.

The tutorial: i  hadn't exppected to  have such a  detailed outline  ready
this soon but the ideas came together; i'm pleased with the result. Though
it's twelve  pages  it  does explaain  ALL  of  the  truth-of-the-universe
--well, most of it anyway-- and  outlines a half-day tutorial.  So I  hope
it is acceptable.

****By  the  way,  we  should  start   hacking  out  the  format  of   the
tutorial/demo part soon. Demos are expected from:

MIT: LOGO on micros

BBN: Steamer demo (see abstract)

ZOO: the lisp song-and-dance team of z-80's.

i've others in mind but haven't had time to run them down yet.

The real pisser in this  deal is all the  neat people who promised  papers
and then "moused" at the last minute. At least three collections did  that
to me --not bloody pleased.  Anyway, this collection represents a  diverse
collection of perspectives LISP.

Since you sounded amazed at TLC-LISP,  I'm enclosing a blurb or two  about
it.  Basically a strong subset of the MIT LISP machine's LISP; runs  about
1/3 of a KA-10, and has a  nice bank-switching hack that will allow up  to
64K of  32-bit  LISP objects  without  noticeable speed  degradation.  I'm
looking for some brave monied souls that would help support 16-32-bit LISP
implementations.  Know any hot prospects?

Any questions about any of  this, please call --(408)353-3857 will  always
be answered by  a live body,  (408)353-2227 will  be a body  or a  message
machine.

Hope you enjoy the papers,

John