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A comment on A Critique of Standard ML (1992) [pdf].

Re:A Critique of Standard ML (1992) [pdf] by kristianp on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:25AM (#18843223)
The Author is Andrew Appel, who wrote "Compiling with Continuations" (92). He's still publishing: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/
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Re:A Critique of Standard ML (1992) [pdf] by pontusrehula on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:23AM (#18843893)
I just found this in one of those papers (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/wand-frame.pdf). In the text:

> Magic wands are famously difficult to control [15]....

In the references:

15. J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Bloomsbury Childrens, London, 1997.

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