THE VIDEO SHELF · towers of interpreters
"Programming Should Eat Itself" by Nada Amin
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 HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a quick, wonderful look at infinite towers of interpreters and what they make possible.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Strange Loop Conference
- Topic
- towers of interpreters
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This is a very intereresting video featuring one of the authors (Nada Amin). Strangely enough, I watched it a few hours ago. It's a quick overview of the "tower of interpreters" idea and some possibilities that it brings. [VIDEO]
minsight on Hacker News · 2017-11
In Collapsing towers of interpreters [pdf]> […] it is important to think broadly about the power of multiple sessions, even from the same user. At first we are talking about 2 sessions, for human and IDE. But it is quite common in rich Common Lisp IDEs like Lispworks for people …
tosh on Hacker News · 2018-12
In Rich Hickey on the Power of Lisp REPLs (2015)This talk isn't about VMs, but it is about an infinite tower of interpreters. You may find it interesting: [VIDEO]
Zambyte on Hacker News · 2023-07
In I have written a JVM in Rust
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