.TH PEARL 1 "29 March 1983"
pearl \- P\s-2EARL\s0 AI programming language
is an AI programming language built on top of F\s-2RANZ\s0\ L\s-2ISP\s0.
P\s-2EARL\s0 (Package for Efficient Access to Representations in Lisp)
was developed with space and time efficiencies in mind.
In addition to providing the usual AI facilities such as slot-filler
objects, demons and associative data bases,
P\s-2EARL\s0 introduces stronger typing on slots,
user-assisted hashing mechanisms,
and a forest of data bases.
There are too many functions to list here; one should refer to the
P\s-2EARL\s0 was implemented at Berkeley by Joseph Faletti and Michael Deering
under the direction of Robert Wilensky.
P\s-2EARL\s0 was originally implemented under UCILisp on a DEC 2040, moved
without modification to a PDP 10 under TOPS 10, and then (with
significant modification) to a VAX 11/780 under F\s-2RANZ\s0\ L\s-2ISP\s0.
Deering, M., Faletti, J., and Wilensky, R. 1981.
P\s-2EARL\s0: An Efficient Language for Artificial Intelligence Programming.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Vancouver, British Columbia. August, 1981.
Deering, M., Faletti, J., and Wilensky, R. 1982.
The P\s-2EARL\s0 Users Manual.
Berkeley Electronic Research Laboratory Memorandum No.
UCB/ERL/M82/19. March, 1982.