Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages
by 13ren on Thursday July 31, 2008 @09:34PM
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Bill Gasper... said: "Don't forget a data structure is merely a stupid programming language, and its point is that a data structure in effect, when given to the program that processes it, is guiding a computation and in effect constitutes a dumb little language that turns a specific application into a more specific one".
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Re:Guy Steele on Programming Languages
by domgblackwell on Friday August 01, 2008 @08:28AM
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I think they mean Bill Gosper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper]...