Home T: A Dialect of Lisp T: A Dialect of Lisp, or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate Software Tool The T project is an experiment in language design and implementation.

Its purpose is to test the thesis developed by Steele and Sussman in

their series of papers about the Scheme language: that Scheme may be

used as the basis for a practical programming language of exceptional

expressive power; and, that implementations of scheme could perform

better than other Lisp systems, and competitively with implementations of programming languages, such as C and Bliss, which are usually

considered to be inherently more efficient than Lisp on conventional

machine architectures. We are developing a portable implementation of

T, currently targetted fo rthe VAX under the Unix and VMS operating

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