David A. Moon
Abstract
This paper describes Symbolics' newly redesigned object-oriented programming system, Flavors. Flavors encourages program modularity, eases the development of large, complex programs, and provides high efficiency at run time. Flavors is integrated into Lisp and the Symbolics program development environment. This paper describes the philosophy and some of the major characteristics of Symbolics' Flavors and shows how the above goals are addressed. Full details of Flavors are left to the programmers' manual, Reference Guide to Symbolics Common Lisp. (5)
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Digital Library
- 2 H. I. Cannon, "Flavors: A non-hierarchical approach to object-oriented programming", 1982.Google Scholar
- 3 R. D. Greenblatt, et al., "The LISP Machine", Interactive Programming Environments, D.R. Barstow, H.E. Shrobe, E. Sandewall, eds. McGraw-Hill, 1984.Google Scholar
- 4 G. L. Steele, Common Lisp the Language, Digital Press, 1984. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 5 Reference Guide to Symbolics Common Lisp: Language Concepts, Symbolics Release 7 Document Set, 1986.Google Scholar
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- Object-oriented programming with flavors
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