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4	5	<title>The Arboretuum Programming Language</title>
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33	38	<p>I will refer you to the reference implementation of Arboretuum
34	39	for details on the semantics of the language. Ordinarily I frown upon this
35		sort of practice — normatively defining a language by an implementation
36		rather than by a specification — but the interests of brevity, the experimental tack of the
	40	sort of practice — normatively defining a language by an implementation
	41	rather than by a specification — but the interests of brevity, the experimental tack of the
37	42	project, the unsuccessful outcome of the experiment, and the relative
38	43	well-definedness of the implementation language (the purely functional subset of R<sup>5</sup>RS Scheme) conspire
39	44	to make the consequences of this choice less painful than usual.</p>