Comment on ICFP '09: "Get rid of cons!" Guy Steele on parallel algorithms & data structuresparentComments−mquanderOP17y> 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_16yConcatenative / 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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> 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.
Concatenative / point-free style? Guy already suggests this on p.68. Paraphrased, if data can be chopped in pieces, maybe code can too?