[comp.lang.functional] Civil Rights for Items/Objects

pop@lastresort.cs.umass.edu (06/12/90)

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The idea was much in the air in the 60's - whether in Birmingham or
Burntollet. Landin and/or Strachey was using a phrase like "First class
citizen" in speaking of entities referred to in a programming language. 

If you can catch Rod Burstall in the right phase of his equivalent to ora
et labora he may offer some enlightenment. I seem to recall him going round
quoting Quine as pronouncing that "To be is to be the value of a variable".