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00100	CART PROJECT MEMO
00200	
00300	The Frozen Fusion Hack.
00400	
00500	Baumgart
00600	
00700	
00800		The Stanford user software known as FAIL, LOADER, SAIL, RAID,
00900	and LISP are integrated into a display  oriented  package  under  new
01000	symbol  table routines and new dynamic storage allocation routines so
01100	that Cart Project programs can be more rapidly developed.  This  hack
01200	is  not  a  research project in the sense that no new ideas are being
01300	developed and no future development of this system will occur.   This
01400	hack  is  not  a  systems  project in the sense that no programmer is
01500	coerced to use it. Finally, this  hack  provides  an  alternative  to
01600	Prof.  Feldman's policy of encouraging strategy and planning research
01700	work on LEAP and SAIL while neglecting the interests  of  programmers
01800	who  need  a  dependable  and  efficient  Algol  compiler.  It  is an
01900	exaggerated lie to say that Feldman is doing  compiler  research  and
02000	freezing research in robotics, vision and geometric modeling; but the
02100	alternative I wish to provided is a frozen compiler so that  research
02200	in  geometric  modeling, vision and robotics will not come to a stand
02300	still for six months just because compiler reseach is also being done
02400	at the same laboratory.