David Combs wrote:
passing *unnamed* functions as args (could Algol 60 also do something like that, via something it maybe termed a "thunk")
No, the "thunks" were necessary at the machine-language level to /implement/ ALGOL 60, but they could not be expressed /in/ ALGOL.
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