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T programming language

T, a dialect of Lisp by Jonathan A. Rees and Norman I. Adams of Yale University, is an experiment in language design and implementation. Its purpose is to test the thesis developed by Steele and Sussman in their series of papers about the Scheme programming language: that Scheme may be used as the basis for a practical programming language of exceptional expressive power; and, that implementations of Scheme could perform bettern than other Lisp systems, and competitively with implementations of programming langauges, such as C and Bliss, which are usually considered to be inherently more efficient than Lisp on conventional machine architectures.

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