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[OFFTOPIC] Re: Invoking a function from a list of functions


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Invoking a function from a list of functions
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:19:47 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> http://blog.languager.org/2013/08/applying-si-on-sicp.html shows why scheme

Indeed, `quote` is crucial and while trivial to implement for Scheme,
it's far from trivial in general (see "cross stage persistence" for
example).

> And APL has fallen off the radar... unfortunate.

There's a bit of renewed (academic) interest, tho.  Not exactly in APL,
but in array languages of the same family (i.e. using the same concepts but
without the exotic character set).

See for example http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pete/research/esop-2014.html


        Stefan




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