Why a Lisp-based command language?

  • Authors:
  • John Levine

  • Affiliations:
  • Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

Everyone now agrees that there is a major programmer productivity crisis in the computing industry today. Reports in Computerworld suggest that within a few years data processing will surpass vegetable farming as the U.S.'s most labor-intensive industry. Clearly, any development that promises to improve programmer productivity substantially is of great importance.One important development has been the growth of programmable system command languages. Since every user needs to learn about the command language in order to use a computer system at all, the more work that can be done at the command language level, the less programming in conventional languages will be required.