Title Debunking the “Expensive Procedure Call” Myth; or, Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful; or, Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO
Author Guy Lewis Steele, Jr.
Year 1977
Publisher MIT AI Lab
Source djvu
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Pages (key to Page Status)
Introduction
A. Procedure Calls as GOTO Statements
2 3 4 5
B. Procedure Calls Can be Fast
C. Why Procedure Calls Have a Bad Reputation
7 8 9
D. What Are We Doing About It?
E. The Expressive Power of Procedure Calls
F. Procedure Calls and Modularity
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References