Metacomputation MST plus SCP
Valentin F Turchin
The City Col lege of New York
First of all I want to thank the organizers of this seminar for inviting me
to review the history and the present state of the work on sup ercompilation
and metasystem transitions I b elieve that these two notions should b e of pri
mary imp ortance for the seminar b ecause they indicate the lines of further
development and generalization of the twokey notions most familiar to the
participants sup ercompilation is a development and generalization of par
tial evaluation while metasystem transition is the same for self application
For myself however the order of app earance of these keywords was opp o
site I started from the general concept of metasystem transition MST for
short and my consequentwork in computer science has b een an application
and concretization of this basic idea