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082349872349872 on Oct 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Generalizing 'jq' and Traversal Systems using opti...

The earliest Newton reference of which I am aware is Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire (1991), where iirc both the bananas and the lenses are (visually!) optical.

https://research.utwente.nl/en/publications/functional-progr...

In particular, the metaphor isn't used in Algorithmics: Towards Programming as a Mathematical Activity (1986).

https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/2686

rainsil on Oct 8, 2020 [–]

I believe the concepts in the first paper are unrelated to those of modern lenses (i.e. functional references). See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17198072/how-is-anamorph...

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