Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
by 082349872349872 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:24AM
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Reading CACM on 50-year delay gives me an interesting diff against current state of the art. Functional programming was a thing (albeit perhaps before "functional programming" was a name) in the sixties.
CPL, IIRC, actually had an outer-functional semantics, and one would escape to "value of" blocks to do procedural stuff (which was necessary in inner code due to the pitifully small machines of the day).
Writing bootstrap compilers in GPM must've been very similar to working in a lazy functional language.
CPL, IIRC, actually had an outer-functional semantics, and one would escape to "value of" blocks to do procedural stuff (which was necessary in inner code due to the pitifully small machines of the day).
Writing bootstrap compilers in GPM must've been very similar to working in a lazy functional language.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL_(programming_language)