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0 pointsTZubiri1y ago0 comments

You throw goto around like it's some revolutionary change that we don't use gotos. Djikstra's paper was like 70 years ago and it was released like immediately after languages were being born.

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ndriscoll1y ago

Recursion schemes are at least as old as "Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire" (1991), which is closer to "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" (1968, so 23 years) than it is to today (34 years). Recursion schemes aren't at all new either.

dang1y ago

A few past threads:

Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire [pdf] (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31152801 - April 2022 (28 comments)

Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24056901 - Aug 2020 (18 comments)

Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire (1991) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9080933 - Feb 2015 (2 comments)

Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6195603 - Aug 2013 (1 comment)

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