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"Programming Should Eat Itself" by Nada Amin

Strange Loop Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

Compilers, interpreters & program analysisFunctional programmingProgramming language design

What it is

Nada Amin's Strange Loop talk on programming languages that build on themselves, centered on towers of interpreters and nestable interpretation in Scheme. She shows how interpreters can be stacked and collapsed.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a quick, wonderful look at infinite towers of interpreters and what they make possible.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “This is a very intereresting video featuring one of the authors (Nada Amin).”

    Quick overview of the tower of interpreters idea and its possibilities

    minsight, 2017-11 · Recommendation · in “Collapsing towers of interpreters [pdf]”

  2. “Here's a wonderful demonstration of the power of nestability”

    Demonstration of the power of nestable interpreters

    tosh, 2018-12 · Recommendation · in “Rich Hickey on the Power of Lisp REPLs (2015)”

  3. “This talk isn't about VMs, but it is about an infinite tower of interpreters.”

    Talk on an infinite tower of interpreters

    Zambyte, 2023-07 · Recommendation · in “I have written a JVM in Rust”

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Topics: nada amin, scheme, interpreters, metacircular, programming languages

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