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1989 SELF compiler paper resurfaces among programmers
Original: Customization: Optimizing Compiler Technology for SELF, a Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Programming Language (1989)
A 1989 research paper, "Customization: Optimizing Compiler Technology for SELF," is being shared again in programming communities. The paper describes compiler optimization techniques for SELF, a dynamically-typed object-oriented language whose ideas influenced later languages like JavaScript engines. Developers interested in compilers and programming language history are reading and discussing the ACM-published work decades after its release.
Why now: Programmers are revisiting foundational compiler research that shaped modern dynamically-typed language implementations.
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Evidence
- Customization: Optimizing Compiler Technology for SELF, a Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Programming Language (1989) https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/74818.74831 # Programming # Compilers # History · lobsters@robot.villas · 4
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