[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

scratchpad i
     
        a general-purpose language originally for interactive
        symbolic mathematics by richard jenks, barry trager, stephen
        m. watt and robert s. sutor of ibm research, ca 1971.  it
        features abstract parametrised data types, multiple
        inheritance and polymorphism.  there were implementations
        for vm/cms and aix.
     
        "scratchpad user's manual", ra 70, ibm june 1975.
     
        1994-12-15
     
     
see also:
symbolic mathematics ibm research multiple inheritance polymorphism vm/cms aix 

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