From: Rich Hickey
Subject: Muddle/MDL
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:58:58 +0000
Message-ID: <eaab1fc0-dac1-44b8-8cdf-0d434ee756e2@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

During a talk I gave last night on Clojure, Gerald Sussman said it
reminded him of Muddle/MDL. I haven't been able to find any detailed
information on MDL online. If anyone could point me to an online-
accessible paper or other documentation I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

Rich

From: Rainer Joswig
Subject: Re: Muddle/MDL
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:14:54 +0000
Message-ID: <joswig-6060FB.21145330092008@news-europe.giganews.com>

In article 
<····································@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
 Rich Hickey <··········@gmail.com> wrote:

> During a talk I gave last night on Clojure, Gerald Sussman said it
> reminded him of Muddle/MDL. I haven't been able to find any detailed
> information on MDL online. If anyone could point me to an online-
> accessible paper or other documentation I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rich

Sure. ;-)

Several large PDFs - the papers are from 1979/1980:

The MDL Programming Language Primer
http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-292.pdf

The MDL Programming Language
http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-293.pdf

The MDL Programming Environment
http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-294.pdf

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