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  1. clojure friends: what is the intellectual heritage of the apply function? are there any other languages contemporary or otherwise that have something like it?
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      i suppose javascript's call and apply methods and ruby's splat operator fit the bill. but i wonder where the idea comes from? did smalltalk have something like it? common lisp?
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