Supercombinators

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  supercombinators
       
          {Combinators} with coarser granularity than those proposed by
          {David Turner}.  A {functional program} is translated to a set
          of functions without {free variable}s.  The members of the set
          are selected to be optimal for that program.  Supercombinators


          were proposed by John Hughes at {University of Edinburgh}.