Y
1. General purpose language syntactically like RATFOR, semantically like C.
Lacks structures and pointers. Used as a source language for Jack W. Davidson
and Christopher W. Fraser's peephole optimiser which inspired GCC RTL and other
optimisation ideas.
ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/pub/y+po.tar.Z. It is a copy of the original
distribution from the University of Arizona during the early 80's, totally
unsupported.
["The Y Programming Language", D.R. Hanson, SIGPLAN Notices 16(2):59-68 (Feb
1981)].
[Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser, "The Design and Application of a
Retargetable Peephole Optimiser", TOPLAS, Apr. 1980].
[Jack W. Davidson, "Simplifying Code Through Peephole Optimisation" Technical
Report TR81-19, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1981].
[Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser, "Register Allocation and Exhaustive
Peephole Optimisation" Software-Practice and Experience, Sep. 1984].
2. See fixed point combinator.
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