Understanding LISP Programs: Towards a Programmer's Apprentice (opens in new tab)

Understanding LISP Programs: Towards a Programmer's Apprentice Rich, Charles; Shrobe, Howard E. Several attempts have been made to produce tools which will help the programmer of complex computer systems. A new approach is proposed which integrates the programmer's intentions, the program code, and the comments, by relating them to a knowledge base of programming techniques. Our research will extend the work of Sussman, Goldstein, and Hewitt on program description and annotation. A prototype ...