[stack] Re: Concatenative Research

"Justin" <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:25:16 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], "William Tanksley, Jr" <wtanksleyjr@...> wrote:
> Indeed, and like all elegant tools, they are from a more civilized
> age. They were invented by Backus for FP and FL, the languages that
> gave us the term "functional languages", although none of their
> immediate successors met their definition of being functional
> languages.

I never fail to be surprised by how much computer science theory was developed before I was born.