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appel

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There's been some work by Appel on trying to improve performance by unrolling (in his case, immutable) cons lists, too.

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Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of appel gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

(fencing) An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.

noun

Obsolete spelling of apple. [A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for appel.

noun

A surname.

noun

(fencing) An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.

noun

Obsolete spelling of apple. [A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.]

Example sentences

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There's been some work by Appel on trying to improve performance by unrolling (in his case, immutable) cons lists, too.

2

Yes, the four color theorem was proven by Appel and Haken on an IBM 370-168 at the University of Illinois in June 1976.

3

I know the project quite well, it's led by Appel and is called Verified Software Toolchain.

4

I'd be surprised Appel and Haken did a formal proof on their machine -- I thought they made a conventional proof with a machine-assisted enumeration of special-cases.

5

Richard Stevens, Harold Ableson (actually knew him, and we share first names:-) and Gerald Sussman, Bjarne Stroustrup, Andrew Appel (compilers) and Richard Jones (GC), Paul Graham, Alan Kay, David Moon, some more Structured Programming types who's names may be less familiar: P.

6

This is a bit like the famous Appel-Haken proof of the "four colour theorem", only much worse.

7

Thanks for sharing, and for anyone else reading you might also like the following book--`Modern Compiler Implementation in ML' by Appel.

8

Took a course with Andrew Appel; the heroic man did not flinch once when he said it over and over again during the semester.

9

I have also learnt how to write compilers for simple languages (mostly from Appel's book).

10

Appel, Modern Compiler Implementation in...

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While I am not certain the premise holds (OCaml dominance), one possible explanation is that many programmers were introduced to ML/OCaml through the compiler construction course and Andrew Appel's book.

12

Appel is a really smart guy from reading his books on optimizing compilers - so I'm going to risk looking like an idiot here, especially because I don't have time to carefully read the paper..

Quote examples

1

This is a bit like the famous Appel-Haken proof of the "four colour theorem", only much worse.

Proper noun examples

1

Thanks for sharing, and for anyone else reading you might also like the following book--`Modern Compiler Implementation in ML' by Appel.

2

Took a course with Andrew Appel; the heroic man did not flinch once when he said it over and over again during the semester.

3

I have also learnt how to write compilers for simple languages (mostly from Appel's book).

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use appel in a sentence?

There's been some work by Appel on trying to improve performance by unrolling (in his case, immutable) cons lists, too.

What does appel mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is appel?

appel is commonly used as noun.