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

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Audio: bit.ly/2qkAczZ
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Description
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William E. Byrd "explores what he considers to be the most beautiful program ever written---a Lisp interpreter written in Lisp---and a few of the many amazing ideas related to this metacircular interpreter."
References
The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen
Essentials of Programming Languages by Daniel P. Friedman and Mitchell Wand
John McCarthy's Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I
LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual by John McCarthy, Paul W. Abrahams, Daniel J. Edwards, Timothy P. Hart and Michael I. Levin (see especially page 13!)
John McCarthy's A micro-manual for LISP - not the whole truth
"Maxwell's equations of software" examined by Ken Shirriff
Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software by Michael Nielsen
miniKanren, live and untagged: quine generation via relational interpreters (programming pearl) by William E. Byrd, Eric Holk, and Daniel P. Friedman
The Reflective Language Black by Asai, Kenichi
Programming Should Eat Itself by Nada Amin, Strange Loop, 2014
Bio
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William E. Byrd (@webyrd) is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. He is co-author of 'The Reasoned Schemer', and is co-designer of the miniKanren relational programming language. He loves StarCraft (BW & SC2). Ask him about the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) he is building.