This paper proposes a visual functional programming language called IconicLisp. The IconicLisp system is an interactive environment for the development of Lisp programs visually. It uses the Cons-Cell graphical notations to write visual Lisp programs. The syntax and the semantics of IconicLisp are based on the functional programming language Lisp. Once a visual program is developed, the IconicL...

Reverse engineering software systems, especially large legacy systems, is a difficult task, because of the sheer size and complexity of the systems. Many approaches have been developed to analyze software systems written in different languages. These approaches employ vary techniques like metrics or visualizations, and typically rely on parsing the system and on extracting a model that conforms...

Criteria for productive application development are considered (yet again), and a point is made why we regard Lisp as the only language suited for that task. Pico Lisp is presented as a successful example, used in commercial applications for many years, and adapted to this task (arguably) better than any other Lisp.

We describe Slisp (pronounced ‘Ess-Lisp’), a hybrid Lisp–C programming toolkit for the development of scriptable and distributed applications. Computationally expensive operations implemented as separate C-coded modules are selectively compiled into a small Xlisp interpreter, then called as Lisp functions in a Lisp-coded program. The resulting hybrid program may run in several modes: as a stand...

The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) limits the growth of the Default-Free Zone routing tables by creating a highly aggregatable and quasi-static Internet core. However, LISP pushes the forwarding state to edge routers whose timely operation relies on caching of location to identity bindings. In this paper we develop an analytical model to study the asymptotic scalability of the LISP cache...

The paper describes two separate but synergistic tools for running experiments on large Lisp systems such as Artiicial Intelligence planning systems, by which we mean systems that produce plans and execute them in some kind of simulator. The rst tool, called Clip (Common Lisp Instrumentation Package), allows the researcher to deene and run experiments, including experimental conditions (paramet...