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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] bare m4 (was BTL summmer employees)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:02:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DDB522D7-91C6-455F-86A6-BCAA6740359E@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202008220329.07M3ToZP041995@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

On Aug 21, 2020, at 8:29 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>> Even high-school employees could make lasting contributions.  I am
>>>> indebted to Steve for a technique he conceived during his first summer
>>>> assignment: using macro definitions as if they were units of associative
>>>> memory. This view of macros stimulated previously undreamed-of uses.
>> 
>>> Can you give some examples of what this looked like?
>> 
> 
> See attached for an answer to Arnold's question

Reminds me of Church numerals & encoding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-22 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-22  3:29 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-22 20:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-22 21:02 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2020-08-23 12:59 ` arnold
2020-08-28 15:52 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-28 16:41 ` Thomas Paulsen

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