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Notes for keynoter, LISP conference

1. variant of history paper, especially administrative history with
evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of what happened.

2. proposals for improvements

	the language itself

	can LISP be the universal language

	higher than LISP preserving self-reference (making the idea precise)

	libraries as part of the system and documented

	organizing and financing a computerized LISP library center

	what standardization is possible

	non-toy LISP on micros is possible

	proving programs and other theory 

Open questions

3. criticism of the LISP machine as the forefront

	LISP seems, after Fortran, to be the second oldest surviving
programming language and seems even less likely than Fortran to
be superseded in the near future.  Consider the following attempts
to displace it: