[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:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> Can you give some examples of what this looked like?
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> 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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