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Wizard School (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
12 points by danw on Aug 21, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I liked the part where he talks about "Folding Languages" because I very recently understood the "tree-of-closures compiler" technique to do exactly that: write code that writes code... I used to think macros were the most powerful and only way to do that, but now I know closures is where it's at.


Why can't the world be like this?




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