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Reversing Abstractions: An Existential Crisis


Diverting trains of thought, wasting precious time Computer science in general, and language implementation in particular, are founded on the idea of realising abstractions in a way I'll call “forwards” and also “existential”. This post is about how these aren't the only way to think about programming infrastructure and abstractions.

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