Improvements in LISP Debugging,

Abstract

Experience with writing large LISP programs and helping students learning LISP suggests that spectacular improvements can be made in this area. These improvements are partly an elimination of sloppy coding in LISP 1.5, but mostly an elaboration of DEFINE, the push down list backtrace, and the current tracing facility. Experience suggests that these improvements would reduce the number of computer runs to debug a program by a third to a half. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 18, 1963
Accession Number
AD0785045

Entities

People

  • S. R. Russell

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Debugging
  • Elimination
  • Learning
  • Software Development

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science.
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