FTR: good old paper on quasi-quotation

John Rose john.r.rose at oracle.com
Tue Aug 2 23:28:10 UTC 2016


Related to some discussion at the JVMLS about quasi-constants
(templates, constants with holes), here is the early history of
quasi-quoting in computing, as reported by someone who was there.

Alan Bawden, Quasiquotation in Lisp (1999)
http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/pepm99/bawden.pdf

Also regarding the history of quasiquotes, I found this little gem,
showing one of our own community, in his tender years, innocently
confounding the Boffins of Quotation.

Boolos & Jeffrey, Logic, Logic, Logic (1999), p. 393
https://books.google.com/books?id=2BvlvetSrlgC&pg=PA393&lpg=PA393&source=bl&ots=sYbY0uDPnJ&sig=HWnkaAHgQOG45MGn5_KyYbPicsk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEpL_33KPOAhVK7GMKHdU0BbwQ6AEISTAL#v=onepage&q&f=false



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