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Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> writes:

[...]

> At about this time - the 1960s - Alan Perlis, then department
> chair at CMU, had two relevant PhD theses written by his students.
> [...]
>
> The second thesis was by a fellow named Fischer (sp?) whose first
> name I've forgotten.  He defined a set of control primitives:
> think of relations between pieces of computations.  Once again
> these were to be used to form the end result when macros were used
> to translate from some high level language.  It was assumed here
> (as was above) that some hardware specific back end would turn
> these expansions either into code (compiler) or into behavior
> (interpreter).  Fischer built such an interpreter.

I expect you are referring to David Fisher.