JAN 20 1971

January 16, 1971

Professor Joshua Tederberg

The Devartment of Genetics

Stanford Tmniversity School of Medicine
Stanford, California, 94305

Dear Mr. Lederberg;

Please let me take this opportunity to thank you
for the information which you sent me regarding the
Dendral Program. It is very helpful, and TI am sure that
Professor York will be grateful for the additional
articles to add to the ones which he already has on
this topic,

Unfortunately, you are right in your supposition
that the IBM 1130 System does not support a LISP
compiler, but I am still interested in attempting to
create some sort of a system for the generation of struc-
tures whether it 1s written in FORTRAN, or in the onlv
other alternative which I have, 1130 Assembler, I feel
sure that I will be able to manage something, though it
will undoubtedly not be anywhere as efficient or as
comvrehensive as a LISP program,

TI will send’ you a printout of anything which I
accomplish on this program. Who knows, maybe there is
a way to do this in FORTRAN, As I said before, thank

you again for the additional materials.

Sincerely vours,

Alan G. Janos”

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Kenyon College

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