[TUHS] bare m4 (was BTL summmer employees)

Bakul Shah bakul at iitbombay.org
Sun Aug 23 07:02:46 AEST 2020


On Aug 21, 2020, at 8:29 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at 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


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