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Yes, and then I found this wiki page about the topic and I still am confused: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par

• gghh 9y ago
  Dan Piponi has a nice introduction to Futamura's projections in his blog: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/05/three-projections-of-doctor-futamura.html http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/05/three-projections-of-doctor-f...
• abecedarius 9y ago
  Here's the simplest code I could come up with for 'dynamic' partial evaluation, showing interpreter->compiler but not the higher projections: http://wry.me/~darius/writings/peval/ http://wry.me/~darius/writings/peval/
• toolslive 9y ago
  Not like you're five, but if you're interested: the standard introduction is still 'Partial Evaluation and Program generation', which is freely available http://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/pebook/pebook.html http://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/pebook/pebook.html