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		DonHopkins on June 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emacs as Email Client I got a kick out of how Dave Ungar implemented the original Self compiler with a whole lot of hard core C++ code. Implementing such an extremely un-C++-like language as Self in such an extremely un-self-like language as C++.

TeMPOraL on June 5, 2020 [–]

I guess once you cross the Greenspun's tenth rule threshold, everything is possible :).

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