Some readers might be interested in “parsing with derivatives” and a recent generalization by Conal Elliot (references in there): http://conal.net/papers/convol

Some readers might be interested in “parsing with derivatives” and a recent generalization by Conal Elliot (references in there): http://conal.net/papers/convolution/ http://conal.net/papers/convolution/ This paper is somewhat abstract/mathematical, but the earlier papers should be more concrete. Lots of blog posts too, if you search for the phrase.