On compilation

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 20:46
[personal profile] kpreid

Consider an interpreter as a function (Program, Input) → Output. Then:

A compiler is an optimized curried interpreter.

(Further reading: The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura)

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