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		UncleEntity on Oct 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Bel > Imagine a sophisticated software that compresses program sources... Isn't that the definition of a compiler?

ithkuil on Oct 13, 2019 [–]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_... are an interesting point of view for the definition of a compiler

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