David Noon said in a message to Stacy Smith:

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Dv> Actually, thunking is a more general process that has been around for
Dv> over 30 years. It was first used in public by a number of ALGOL 60
Dv> compilers that implemented the full, 1960 standard for the IFIP
Dv> Algorithmic Language (ALGOL).

David,

A few years back, I worked with someone who was long ago a junior programmer
under the guy who invented thunks ( what's his name???). I've heard
lots of other stories about how thunks were named, but this guy claimed that
the inventor told him, "It's the sound the pointers make when they hit the
stack."

--Bill


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