In High schools across the country, kids learn algebra. I know quite a few parents who have some big problems with algebra. For some, it’s just because it’s been a while since they’ve needed to use it, for others, it’s always been a hard thing, but it doesn’t have to be. In this post, I’ll take you through some of the basic concepts of algebra as if you had never seen it before, it’ll be a bit of a whirlwind review of the idea, but (hopefully) written well enough so that someone who has never fully understood algebra. Oh, yes, by the way, there will be word problems. 
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So- Apparently I have no idea what I’m talking about when it comes to scheme-style quoting in haskell. Augustss Says you can’t do it because of- well, some reason beyond my comprehension. He’s a smart guy, so I’m inclined to believe him. However, I still think that what I proved in my last post holds- if not for quoting in haskell, then for quoting in scheme. The operations are still the same, dequote is just eval, quote is ‘. In any case, my goal wasn’t to really come up with some fantastic new insight into haskell, it was mostly just something I hacked on in my spare time- and thought might interest others. In any case, like I said, Augustss knows what he’s talking about, so take the last post with a grain of salt.
> module Quotable where
This is a nice little code dump I was trying to have posted yesterday, I’ve finally got most of the formatting bugs worked out. I wasn’t thinking I was going to post this till I got about 2/3rd the way through it, so it’s pretty rough. Think of it as a look into my notebook. Enjoy.
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