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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: A bit of Dylan smell (Re: Attention all Dylan enthusiasts!)
Message-ID: <1995Nov10.105009.1978@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 10:50:09 GMT
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cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:

>2) Dylan has everything that is needed to make full use of closures
>and therefore use of clean, elegant new abstractions for control
>structures. See Henry Bakers excellent paper on this.

><a href="ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/Iterator.html"> "Iterators: Signs
>of Weakness in Object-Oriented Languages".  ACM OOPS Messenger 4, 3
>(July 1993), 18-25. If your language requires iterators in order to
>get anything done, your language's control structures are grossly
>deficient." (quoted from his www site)

>While you're at it, read everything else in that directory :-)

I'm sorry, I just pasted the url without checking it. Needless to say,
it is wrong.

Access Henry Baker's Papers at:

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/home.html

The site is loaded, keep trying.

Martin
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