<jrm@itasoftware.com> wrote:
+---------------
| "felix" <felixundduni@freenet.de> writes:
| > Well, thanks! But the idea is entirely Henry Baker's. Chicken is just the
| > first implementation that uses this approach, AFAIK.
| 
| The first Scheme implementation that uses this approach.  I used this
| approach on another language back in 1997.
+---------------

And of course Baker himself used it in 1994 to code Gabriel's "Boyer
Benchmark" in C (hand-compiling/CPS'ing the Lisp).

   Baker, H.G.  "CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments, Part II: Cheney
   on the M.T.A."  Draft Memorandum, Jan., 1994.  Available from
   ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/CheneyMTA.ps.Z.

[Archived at <URL:http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul/hbaker/CheneyMTA.html>
or <URL:http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul/hbaker/CheneyMTA.ps.Z>, code at 
<URL:http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul/hbaker/cboyer13.c>.]


-Rob

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