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Re:Awesome Self-Reference by timonoko on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @08:31AM (#29891241)
"The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" should be in this list.

https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc?t=3383

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Re:Awesome Self-Reference by ek8v on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @08:56AM (#29891479)
Believe it or not, I was at that PWL meetup in 2017! LISP and metacircular evaluation were definitely among the things that inspired the list. The "Micro-Manual for LISP" mentioned in the talk is on it.
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