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What is the full form of SKILL in SKILL programming

Arokia

May I please know, what is the full form of SKILL in SKILL programming

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  • Marben

    SKILL is a high-level, interactive programming language based on the popular artificial intelligence language, Lisp.

  • Arokia
    in reply to Marben

    Thanks Marben but could you please let me know the full form

    for example 

    CAD - Computer Aided Design

    SKILL - ???? ???? ???? ???? ?????

  • Arokia
    in reply to Arokia

    I google searched it, and this is what I found.

    "SKILL was originally based on a flavor of Lisp called Franz Lisp created at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman. SKILL is not an acronym; it is a name. For trademark reasons Cadence prefers it be capitalized." 

    I guess this answers my question as SKILL is not an acronym. 

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  • Arokia
    in reply to Arokia

    I google searched it, and this is what I found.

    "SKILL was originally based on a flavor of Lisp called Franz Lisp created at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman. SKILL is not an acronym; it is a name. For trademark reasons Cadence prefers it be capitalized." 

    I guess this answers my question as SKILL is not an acronym. 

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  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to Arokia

    That's right, it's not an acronym. There's a theory that it morphed from SCIL (Silicon Compiler Interpreted Language) unto a proper word, but whether that is really true has been lost in the mists of time (it's not mentioned in Tim Barnes' paper "SKILL: a CAD system extension language" (27th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference) from 1990 - it might have been in the earlier 1986 paper by Larry Lai and Steve Law "SKILL - An Interactive Procedural Design Environment" (Proceedings of Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1986), but I can't find an online copy of that.

    Certainly when I was first using the language in 1991 (before I joined Cadence) it was well known as SKILL (I recall some documents describing the language as IL (interpreted language) and the applications layer as "SKILL", but I may be mis-remembering that).

    Andrew

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