Re: Muddle/MDL



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Rich Hickey <richhickey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

During a talk I gave last night on Clojure, Gerald Sussman said it
reminded him of Muddle/MDL. I haven't been able to find any detailed
information on MDL online. If anyone could point me to an online-
accessible paper or other documentation I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

Rich

Sure. ;-)

Several large PDFs - the papers are from 1979/1980:

The MDL Programming Language Primer
http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-292.pdf

The MDL Programming Language
http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-293.pdf

The MDL Programming Environment
http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-294.pdf

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