Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: Shriram Krishnamurthi
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 10:52

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janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) writes:

> We are considering describing a possible ILU "cliche" [...]
> which would be treated specially by various languages which allow
> runtime procedure definition (Python, Tcl, Emacs-Lisp, Common Lisp),
> to provide the exact functionality of first class procedures.

> A more interesting extension would be first-class types :-)...

Are you looking for something more powerful than ML's signature
definition system?  Would you care to elaborate on this?  A few
examples would help.

I thought Russell had essentially been retired.  What does PARC have
up its sleeve this time? (-:

Thanks.

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From: shriram@asia.cs.rice.edu (Shriram Krishnamurthi)
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Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
Date: 11 Nov 1994 10:52:26 GMT
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