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00300	\F4ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY\←L\-R\/'7;\+R\→.\→S   Telephone:
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00500	\F1\CApril 22, 1974
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00900	Mr.Patrick Gibbons
01000	University of London Computing Center
01100	20 Guildford Street
01200	London WC1, England
01300	
01400	Dear Mr. Gibbons:
01500	
01600	\JJim Horning has suggested that I write you regarding my letter
01700	to him of April 3rd.
01800	
01900	I have no serious objection to seeing this letter
02000	published, although it was not written with this in mind.
02100	
02200	I would like to make one minor correction as noted on the copy
02202	enclosed. I certainly did not intend to convey the impression that
02204	John McCarthy's own laboratory had gone back on Lisp, as a casual
02206	reader might infer, so I would like to add the phrase ", particularly
02208	in the vision work under Feldman". The choice of language is a highly
02210	personal matter and frequently more influenced by the enthusiasm of
02212	the professor than by the abstract suitability of the language
02214	itself. Horning, of course, knows the situation here at Stanford but
02216	the average reader in England would not. Adding this phrase would
02218	help keep the record straight.
03200	
03300	In all fairness to Jim, you should certainly make it clear that the
03302	suggestion for publishing my letter originated with him. That Jim
03304	should make this suggestion certainly reflects favorably on his
03306	essential fairness since my letter did sort of take him to task, as
03308	he put it.
03700	
03800	All in all, this seems to be an amicable way of terminating what threatened
03900	to be an acrimonious dispute. Perhaps you should let Donald Michie see my
04000	letter and get his agreement that the matter can well be dropped. I would
04100	not want my letter to Jim to lead to a public debate, this time between
04200	Don and me. The real dispute is with Sir James Lighthill.\.
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04400	
04500	Sincerely,
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04900	Arthur L. Samuel
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05800	cc: J.J.Horning