Related to some discussion at the JVMLS about quasi-constants (templates, constants with holes), here is the early history of quasi-quoting in computing, as reported by someone who was there.
Alan Bawden, Quasiquotation in Lisp (1999) http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/pepm99/bawden.pdf Also regarding the history of quasiquotes, I found this little gem, showing one of our own community, in his tender years, innocently confounding the Boffins of Quotation. Boolos & Jeffrey, Logic, Logic, Logic (1999), p. 393 https://books.google.com/books?id=2BvlvetSrlgC&pg=PA393&lpg=PA393&source=bl&ots=sYbY0uDPnJ&sig=HWnkaAHgQOG45MGn5_KyYbPicsk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEpL_33KPOAhVK7GMKHdU0BbwQ6AEISTAL#v=onepage&q&f=false _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
