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Article #22588Re: Paper tape vs card structuring
From: Malcolm Shute
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 10:38
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 10:38
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In article <1656@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: > In article <1639@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: > >[...] the difference between encoded (paper tape) and structural > >(card deck) representations of data [...] >The use of combinators means that the structural relationships >among parts of the program are encoded in the program, not out-of-band. > >Frankly I am hard pressed to think of an architecture that is really >encoded. [...] Presumably, an architecture which supports only S and K combinators in its instruction set (plus a few luxuries like I,B,C,+,- and integers) would, by your definition, be such an example. Malcolm SHUTE. (The AM Mollusc: v_@_ ) Disclaimer: all
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!r4!mshute From: mshute@r4.uucp (Malcolm Shute) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Paper tape vs card structuring Message-ID: <997@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Date: 23 Feb 90 10:38:18 GMT References: <1656@aber-cs.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Reply-To: mshute@r4.UUCP (Malcolm Shute) Organization: University of Manchester, UK Lines: 15