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by mcguire 2794 days ago
"The Anatomy of a Loop", Olin Shivers. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/papers/loop.pdf

And that's in Scheme, so it doesn't look like someone dropped a chunk of Algol in your coffee.

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Which explicitly mentions loop systems for Lisp as its inspiration: Yale Loop and Jonathan Amsterdam"s excellent ITERATE.