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Re:Show HN: Bel by UncleEntity on Sunday October 13, 2019 @12:21PM (#21241198)
> Imagine a sophisticated software that compresses program sources...

Isn't that the definition of a compiler?

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Re:Show HN: Bel by ithkuil on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:07PM (#21242214)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_... are an interesting point of view for the definition of a compiler
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