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(fn Arc Language Blog): The Y Combinator in Arc and Java
In Arc, it's easy to write a recursive factorial function: .... To convince you that the Java recursion works even in a more complex case, we can implement ...
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(fn Arc Language Blog): The Y Combinator in Arc and Java
In Arc, it's easy to write a recursive factorial function: .... I'd done crazy continuation stuff in Java, so why not the Y combinator? ...
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(fn Arc Language Blog): The Y Combinator in Arc and Java
For details on applicative-order, eta-reduction, why different combinators are required, and a derivation of the Y combinator, see Sketchy Lisp. ...
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(fn Arc Language Blog): Why Arc is bad for exploratory programming
I used to be quite interested in arc and lisp, but recently I've been quite turned off by the attitudes of some in the lisp community. ...
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(fn Arc Language Blog): The Y Combinator in Arc and Java
In order to define types, I restricted my Java Y combinator to integer functions on integers. Each type defines an interface, and each object implements the ...
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(fn Arc Language Blog): The Y Combinator in Arc and Java
The Java version is considerably more verbose than the Arc version, since each function becomes an object creation wrapping an anonymous function ...
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(fn Arc Language Blog): Readline support for Arc
But how do you use readline with Arc? There has been discussion at arclanguage.org, but there are complications. Mzscheme added support for readline in ...
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(fn Arc Language Blog): The importance of software testing
The importance of software testing. At work we have a nifty electronic postage kiosk that will weigh letters, compute the postage, print a postage strip, ...