[plt-scheme] Smallest set of operators

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 07:48:04AM -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
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> On Feb 2, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
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> >On 2/2/07, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>1. You need to specify what you mean with define.
> >>
> >
> >define = implement.
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> 
> This definition is naive. Just use ONE SINGLE combinator (X, see  
> Barendregt) and you can compile EVERY language to it. -- Matthias

Only purely functional languages, I'd say.  You might have trouble 
invoking a shell script that formats a hard disk with just X.

-- hendrik