Object-oriented programming with flavors

This paper describes Symbolics' newly redesigned object-oriented programming system, <italic>Flavors. Flavors</italic> encourages program modularity, eases the development of large, complex programs, and provides high efficiency at run time. <italic>Flavors</italic> is integrated into Lisp and the Symbolics program development environment. This paper describes the philosophy and some of the major characteristics of Symbolics' <italic>Flavors</italic> and shows how the above goals are addressed. Full details of <italic>Flavors</italic> are left to the programmers' manual, <italic>Reference Guide to Symbolics Common Lisp. (5)</italic>