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The Lambda Papers

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110 pointsmr_tyzic10 comments

Links to the three unlinked papers:

Compiler Optimization Based on Viewing LAMBDA as RENAME + GOTO

ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AITR-474.pdf

Debunking the "Expensive Procedure Call" Myth, or Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful, or LAMBDA, the Ultimate GOTO

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5753/AIM-443.p...

Design of a Lisp-based Processor

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5731/AIM-514.p...

Thanks! The main page (http://readscheme.org/) has a contact address for the maintainer; maybe they'll add those links to the site if you let them know.

...or result in a takedown. The links appeared on the first page of Google searches for the title. And the ACM appears pretty committed to monetizing articles in PDF format.

Some of the links on the site just link to the ACM page.

I don't get it. Are you suggesting one can't link to a paper on a completely legit MIT site, because a version of the paper was later published in an ACM publication?

No. I am stating that the copyright status of the files sitting at the end of my links is unknown. They may be hosted legally with the rights holder's permission. They may be hosted legally under fair use.

On the other hand, general access could exceed fair use - e.g. the hosted copy was made for archival purposes of a licensee. Or the hosted file could simply be an illegal copy. While hosting at MIT has some correlation with legitimacy in this particular case, it in no way insures it.

Right now, the papers are there for anyone with a web connection. The risk of breaking that far outweighs the benefits of fixing readscheme.

These papers (or those of them that I've read, anyway, mostly the earlier ones) are really fantastic.

SICP now free online too (and has been for quite some time)... http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

Previous discussion about the relative merit of these papers versus the relative number of times a link to them floats about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599306

That's from nearly five years ago and consists of three comments.

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