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From: rmc@panda.UUCP (R. Mark Chilenskas)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: Thus spake the DoD...
Message-ID: <301@panda.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 19:30:06 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 19:30:06 1985
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Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Keywords: Common Lisp, Embedded Systems
Summary: CommonLisp :: AI == Ada :: Embedded Systems


	There are many, many, very times many directives by the DoD.  The
Ada directive mostly applies to "embedded systems", which is typically 
taken to mean operating systems, compilers, database systems, ...  In 
addition, some other programs classically considered applications would
be done in Ada as well.

	For AI research, expert systems, command and control systems
using AI techniques, etc. the language of DoD choice is Common Lisp.  There
is a fair amount of effort (and even some money from DoD) going into 
standardization and insuring that all machines commonly used for DoD work
in the above areas have a Common Lisp implementation.  As a contractor, 
you are likely to need a waiver to program in some language other than Ada
or Common Lisp, but as long as you choose one of the two you can probably
justify it to your sponsor.

					R Mark Chilenskas
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