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Yaroslav Khnygin<p>Did you know that Guy Steele wrote a C book? Now I have one.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>C</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/CLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CLanguage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/CLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CLang</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/GLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GLS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/GuySteele" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GuySteele</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ProgrammingLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProgrammingLanguages</span></a></p>
Jörg Preisendörfer<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@coderCyclist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>coderCyclist</span></a></span> </p><p>(2/2)</p><p>Note that while <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scheme</span></a> implementations are required to do the optimization so as to conform to the standard, any halfway decent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonLisp</span></a> implementation will also do it, although the standard doesn't require it.</p><p>The implementations of numerous other languages also do it.</p><p>It's state of the art since the 1970ies, when the point was made in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LambdaPapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LambdaPapers</span></a> by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GuySteele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GuySteele</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeraldSussman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeraldSussman</span></a>.</p><p>🌺</p>