Mix Ten Years Later

The rst article reporting a running nontrivial self-applicable partial evaluator appeared in1985 [18]. It described the results of one year's intense work done by Peter Sestoft, Harald Sndergaard, and myself at DIKU; work which has since led to much activity worldwide. Its signi cance was that it for the rst time demonstrated in practice the feasibility of generating both compilers and a compiler generator by selfapplication of a partial evaluator: a possiblity which had been foreseen in principle by Yoshihiki Futamura in 1971, and independently by others soon after