Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!ifistg!ifi!momma From: momma@is.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Stefan Momma) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: REAL LISP applications Message-ID: Date: 28 May 90 08:53:08 GMT References: <1990May24.195449.15510@king.mcs.drexel.edu> <1990May25.221509.21274@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <22308@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <36850@think.Think.COM> <2586@skye.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@ifistg.uucp Distribution: comp Organization: IfI, Univ. Stuttgart, W Germany Lines: 25 In-reply-to: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk's message of 27 May 90 16:43:47 GMT In article <2586@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes: > In article <36850@think.Think.COM> barmar@nugodot.think.com (Barry Margolin) writes: > >One I can think of offhand is that American Express is using an expert > >system running on Symbolics Lisp Machines to automate purchase > >authorization [...] > > It also improves the way information is presented to the human > authorizer in a number of ways, including such details as displaying > numbers with leading zeros supressed (which the older interface > apparently didn't do). > Does it really take a Lisp- or whatever -based expert system to do display numbers with leading zeros suppressed ? :-) -- Stefan Momma voicemail:+49-711-121-1431 (-3138) (secr.: -3125) Projekt Polygloss Internet: momma@informatik.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de IMS-CL/IfI-AIS Because-It's-There-NET: nbab1424@ds0rus54 University of Stuttgart ICBMnet : 48 46 36 N; 9 10 48 E; alt 245 m SnailNet/Sneakernet: Keplerstrasse 17 D-7000 Stuttgart 1; Fed. Rep. of Germany