"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
In a previous lifetime, I actually knew something about the compilation of functional programming languages. Hence, I found this presentation about writing a Scheme to C compiler by Mark Feeley to be rather familiar, and yet still useful and inspiring.
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