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00100 Here are some reactions to Milner's May 7 memo "Future work
00200 on LCF".
00300
00400 1. The proposed recursively enumerable relation R(S,B) is
00500 not the most general form of rule of inference. This would be
00600 some thing like R(S,B,P) where P is a generalized parameter. The
00700 idea is that P contains whatever additional information is required
00800 to guarantee that B follows from S. For example, P might specify
00900 a sequence of magic substitutions. I can give more examples if
01000 necessary.
01100
01200 2. I would like to choose priorities in such a way as will
01300 lead to a practically useful system for a useful class of programs
01400 as soon as possible. I don't see that this can be done very quickly,
01500 but it would have a very large payoff in showing that theoretical
01600 work in MTC has genuine practical applications. My other comments
01700 reflect this orientation.
01800