From: Martin Coxall <pseudo.meta@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T00:17:31+09:00
Subject: Re: "Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass"

> | I had been hired to write a Fortran compiler for this new marvel and
> | Mel was my guide to its wonders. Mel didn't approve of compilers.
> |
> | "If a program can't rewrite its own code," he asked, "what good is it?"
> |
>
> Fun little read, btw, though quite off-topic here.

Metaprogramming is the new COME FROM statement.

;p

Martin