Programming

Programming

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Small Programs and Languages

An essay on the appeal of tiny programs and small languages, drawing on examples like a 46-byte Forth, Arthur Whitney's one-page C interpreter, a 436-byte Lisp, and a 2Kb JavaScript 3D game. It compares how small languages such as Forth, Lisp, Tcl and Lua trade size against expressiveness.

— via Hacker News (top 30), andsoitis


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