September 1991 - Vol. 34 No. 9
Features
From under the rubble: computing and the resuscitation of Romania
How does an entire country return to life?…
How the Nintendo generation learns
Recently, I was chatting with my son, Daniel (age 7) about Nintendo. I asked him if he could bring it in to school for show and tell and he was horrified!…
CLOS: integrating object-oriented and functional programming
Lisp has a long history as a functional language,* where action is invoked by calling a procedure, and where procedural abstraction and encapsulation provide convenient…
We consider here the importance of an overall systems viewpoint in avoiding computer-related risks. According to Webster's, a system is a regularly interacting or…
Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems has created a machine translation system called Metal that supports the following language pairs: German-English; English-German;…
CLIM: the Common Lisp interface manager
The essence of an application is a set of objects and a set of operations on those objects. The essence of the behavior of an application's user interface is similar to…
LispView: leverage through integration
Although Lisp was the host for many of the first graphical user interface (GUI) packages, popular activity in this area has shifted to more primitive but widely used…
Delivering the goods with Lisp
Lisp has long had a reputation for the efficacy of its development environment. It is used in academia and by some R&D groups in industry; and, compared with…
Biosphere 2 (Earth being Biosphere 1) is an experiment in closed system ecology. It is a steel and glass structure about the size of three football fields and has a…