William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" [PWL NYC]

Name: William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" [PWL NYC]
Description: William Byrd presents at Papers We Love NYC on what he calls the most beautiful program ever written, a Lisp interpreter written in Lisp. He walks through the metacircular interpreter and related ideas, and demos relational programming and program synthesis near the end.

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William Byrd presents at Papers We Love NYC on what he calls the most beautiful program ever written, a Lisp interpreter written in Lisp. He walks through the metacircular interpreter and related ideas, and demos relational programming and program synthesis near the end.

HN repeatedly recommends it as an amazing talk that derives the essence of Lisp and shows miniKanren-style program synthesis.

17 Hacker News mentions · 2017–2026

Topics

Functional programming
Compilers, interpreters & program analysis

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