Re: The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X

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From: Nick Rothwell
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 12:00

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In article <2886@water.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@water (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>Readers are encouraged to track the progress of SAX (Sharp APL for UNIX),
>which has introduced some new combinators.  Their vocabulary uses words
>like "noun", "verb", "adverb", and "conjunction".  An adverb corresponds
>to a mathematical operator because it acts on a function ("verb") and 
>returns a function as a result.

Why are "operators" different to functions?

What do you do about full higher-order facilities (e.g. higher-order
functions returning higher-order functions)? "adadadadadverbs"?

>    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.

		Nick.
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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X
Keywords: programming languages, abstractions
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Date: 10 Jan 90 12:00:23 GMT
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