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Emre Sevinc

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From: Emre Sevinc <em...@bilgi.edu.tr>

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:34:45 +0200

Local: Sun, Jan 23 2005 3:34 pm

Subject: Re: Functional Geometry for fishes

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Frank Buss <f...@frank-buss.de> writes:
> I never really understood how to use higher order functions as combinators,
> until I read the article from Peter Henderson about Functional Geometry.
> Now it is easy for me to use it in Lisp:

> http://www.frank-buss.de/lisp/functional.html
> http://www.frank-buss.de/lisp/fishes.pdf

As Rainer Joswig pointed out, Scheme designers were interested
with Henderson's examples, too.

For people who want to see Henderson's ideas in action
this video set is a good choice. I guess it is the 4th or 5th
.avi file that includes a lecture about how to produce
Escher style pictures using a functional programming
language and Henderson's ideas:

http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/

Now that we have Common Lisp version which produces
Postscript output, we're one step closer to total world
domination! ;-)

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Emre Sevinc

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