Re: [stack] R

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From: "John Nowak" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [stack] R


> 
> On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Stevan Apter wrote:
> 
>> if that's intellectual curiosity, i am marie of roumania.
> 
> I'll admit I'm running low on intellectual curiosity at the moment.  
> Suffering from thesis paper exhaustion.
> 
> What I was getting at is that it appears there's little you can't  
> emulate easily via higher order functions in a language like Joy. If  
> that's the case, then it seems the advantages are primarily syntactic  
> in nature.
> 
> It took a slight amount of beating (from Slava Pestov no less) to get  
> me to see the light with respect to concatenative languages. If anyone  
> has the patience to show me what's what with respect to array  
> languages (or, alternatively, a good link), I'd appreciate it.

www.jdl.ac.cn/turing/pdf/p444-iverson.pdf 

still the best exposition of the central ideas of array programming.


> 
> - John
>