meaning of symmetric lisp
1. Symmetric LISP A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. ["Parallelism, Persistence and Meta-Cleanliness in the Symmetric Lisp Processor", D. Gelernter et al, SIGPLAN Notices 227:274-282 July 1987]. ["A Programming Language Supporting First-Class Parallel Environments", S. Jagannathan, MIT-LCS/TR 434, 1989]. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan