SAIL -
1. Early system on Larc computer. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
2. Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language. Dan Swinehart & Bob
Sproull, Stanford AI Project, 1970. A large ALGOL-60-like language for
the DEC-10 and DEC-20. Its main feature is a symbolic data system based
upon an associative store (originally called LEAP). Items may be stored as
unordered sets or as associations (triples). Processes, events and
interrupts, contexts, backtracking and record garbage collection. Block-
structured macros. "Recent Developments in SAIL - An ALGOL-based Language
for Artificial Intelligence", J. Feldman et al, Proc FJCC 41(2), AFIPS
(Fall 1972). (See MAINSAIL).
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