[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Formal semantics should not contain complicating optimizations

From: Thomas Lord <lord>
Date: Thu Mar 15 13:54:35 2007

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>> real world programming.


That phrase gets tossed around too much.

People fetishize the social role of the report in some pretty
superstitious ways, I think. It's like looking for (or wishing
for) a control point for all the wrong things in the wrong place.

-t
Received on Thu Mar 15 2007 - 14:03:27 UTC