He borrowed the compiler and decompiler from the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, but unlike the spreadsheet language Formula Language was designed primarily for string and list processing, not numerical processing.
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The corresponding IBM program, released in 1959, used efficient list processing ( tree tracing ) techniques combined with a book-keeping system for managing the loops . ( At the time John McCarthy ).
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Record I / O and list processing produce situations where the programmer needs to fit a declaration to the storage of the next record or item, before knowing what type of data structure it has.
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His inventions included : list processing, the most important programming paradigm used by AI ever since; the application of means-ends analysis to general reasoning ( or " reasoning as search " ); and the use of heuristics to limit the search space.
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It was developed at Systems Development Corporation by Erwin Book, Dewey Val Schorre and Steven J . Sherman With the full power of ( lisp 2 ) a list processing language optimizing algorithms could operate on syntax generated lists and trees before code generation.
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He was awarded the J . C . ( Cliff ) Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing ."
