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[3] is made possible thanks to a variation of the idea called "Futamura projections":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_pr...




I read that as Futurama and when I clicked through was expecting to see a picture of Fry or Hypnotoad as some time travel concept as inspiration. Even better, when I clicked through I read it the first time and thought “wow cool someone’s last name is Futurama” then I read it again haha.


because you wrote Futurama and referred to it so many times in this reply, when I skimmed the thread I read the word in this post and the one above it as Futurama. it took me like 3 re-reads to realize the original did NOT say Futurama.


"Dyslexics of the world, untie!"


Made a short explainer video on how they're using Futamura's ideas of "partial evaluation" to essentially generate an optimizing compiler from just an interpreter.

https://youtu.be/vNwA_U4XvfI




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