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title: "Toward Efficiency Trough Generality"
authors:
  - "Jean-Louis Laurière"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/116"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0116.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
keywords:
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# Toward Efficiency Trough Generality

Jean-Louis Laurière

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

In the following lines we shall adduce new elements to a controversy which lies at the heart of curr e nt discussions about programming activities. The question is: must we write specific programs or general systems ?We shall contrast the two approaches to this methodological problem by me ans of a case in point. Their respective interest will be compared andasurprising conclusion will eventually be reached which is crucial to the core of AI and justifies many researches in the field : efficiency can only · be attained trough generality.