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Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 1985)

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Jones, N.D., Sestoft, P., Søndergaard, H. (1985). An experiment in partial evaluation: The generation of a compiler generator. In: Jouannaud, JP. (eds) Rewriting Techniques and Applications. RTA 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 202. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-15976-2_6

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