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the rate of growth and change of large Lisp systems. Finally, it is this very simplicity of syntax and
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Practical programming languages scale up to programs of millions of lines of code.
They provide a rich set of abstractions and syntax. How...
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ask: is this huge number really the factorial of 100? How can we tell? ... system, and the hardware! This
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book, we place our trust in the Mozart developers, software companies, and
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combinations of laziness, dataflow variables, and declarative concurrency.
All of these models are practical and some of them have been used as the
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placement ability (update software while the system is running). It is a high-level
language that hides the internal representation of data and...