Re:James Gosling Interview
by macintux on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:52AM
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The concept certainly predates Haskell by a few decades, but I haven’t found the origin of the phrase.
I tried to find a copy of this SNOBOL paper from 1973[0] to see whether it occurs there, but no luck so far. It doesn’t appear in the original COMIT paper[1].
I tried to find a copy of this SNOBOL paper from 1973[0] to see whether it occurs there, but no luck so far. It doesn’t appear in the original COMIT paper[1].
[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361952.361960
[1]: http://www.catb.org/~esr/comit/comit-paper.html