Loglisp Programming System Users Manual.

KBSA Framework

“…The framework prototype, at one point or another during its lifetime, ran on three different operating system/LISP implementations (VAXLISP on VMS, Symbolics, and Allegro CL on Unix) each through several major upgrades. The framework uses as components the LogLisp Programming System [4], and PCL (a portable CLOS implementation), various miscellaneous tools (browsers, communication packages, etc.). In addition, KUIE is based on the Common Lisp interface to X windows (CLX), and Texas Instruments' Common Lisp User-interface Environment (CLUE).…”

“…Two examples; first, we've found that selecting the right name for a generic function is surprisingly difficult since the name, in a small but practically meaningful way, describes your expectationa of how the function will be generalized. For KUIE, we essentially resorted to sticking a prefix in front of all function names ("contact-") and then using the most generic name for the operation that seemed reasonable 4 . The second example is the use of slots (via slot-value) in the methods that specialize on a class.…”