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I wish people stopped using niche terms as a) if they were common knowledge, and b) as if they were crucial to the discussion at hand. It's much more intuitive to explain what's going on and then say that what is described is also known as ___.

The Futamura Projections can be explained in about three lines and is not at all a complex concept to wrap your head around.

Casually inserting these terms in a forum where most people likely haven't had much exposure to partial evaluation terminology makes it sound like you want to either forcefully polularize these terms or make yourself sound more important.

...not saying you intended either.



I think you are wrong about this. Contrary to a normal conversation, specific vocabulary used on the internet can be instantly looked up. This allows for diving more into the topics if they interest you.




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