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Black (Asai)

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Black (Asai)
Designed by Asai, Matsuoka, & Yonezawa
Appeared in 1996
Computational class Turing-complete
Reference implementation [1]
Influenced by Scheme, Brown, Blond
Influenced Pink

Black is a reflective flavor of Scheme introduced in 1996 as a potential approach to building an indefinitely-tall tower of metainterpreters with efficient partial evaluation.[1]

References

  1. Asai, K., Matsuoka, S. & Yonezawa, A. Duplication and partial evaluation. Lisp and Symbolic Computation 9, 203–241 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01806113