A Hacker's Introduction to Partial Evaluation

A Hacker's Introduction to Partial Evaluation

This is an interesting and mind bending discussion on the topic of partial evaluation. Knowing nothing about this subject, I found this to be useful, if not a tad bit overwhelming, introduction.

I also liked the code examples the author chose to develop. He managed to show how a passing around functions and overriding primitives can make for surprising clear code.

If you are a Lisp geek, and want to expand your horizons give this paper a try.

And may you be luckier than me and not need 3-4 close readings before you start to see the light.

--Ben