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[RC Diary] The most beautiful program ever written, and speed reading app (-40)

[RC Diary] The most beautiful program ever written, and speed reading app (-40)

The most beautiful program ever written

A few weeks ago I went to this meetup where William Byrd presented an interpreter for Scheme in a few lines. It was a fascinating talk where he spoke about this:

scheme interpreter

So I started writing a blog post, where I go through it, and an example on how to call that, that he sent over Zulip (!), to help in understanding how it works.

Speed reading app

We got a few useful refactorings in place, for example using types instead of booleans, felt like trying not to be cavemans actually, then we fixed contextual punctuation, I think the next step would be syntax highlight.

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