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Re:ICFP '09: "Get rid of cons!" Guy Steele on parallel algor... by mquander on Thursday September 10, 2009 @03:16PM (#815943)
> It might be an interesting to think about what programs would look like if you applied code=data rigorously in a conc model. Would a language whose expressions are represented as concs look or feel significantly different than a cons-based one?

Now that is food for thought.

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Re:ICFP '09: "Get rid of cons!" Guy Steele on parallel algor... by doelie_ on Friday September 11, 2009 @07:04AM (#817139)
Concatenative / point-free style? Guy already suggests this on p.68. Paraphrased, if data can be chopped in pieces, maybe code can too?
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