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		mquander on Sept 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICFP '09: "Get rid of cons!" Guy Steele on paralle... > It might be an interesting to think about what programs would look like if you applied code=data rigorously in a conc model. Would a language whose expressions are represented as concs look or feel significantly different than a cons-based one? Now that is food for thought.

doelie_ on Sept 11, 2009 [–]

Concatenative / point-free style? Guy already suggests this on p.68. Paraphrased, if data can be chopped in pieces, maybe code can too?

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