A Dual View on Syntax

Lobsters is highlighting a technical discussion on compiler design that explores interaction nets and optimal reduction as foundations for functional programming languages. The piece suggests that using flat, relational data structures instead of recursive data can simplify language implementations, particularly for query-based architectures and the dynamic programming problems that come up in language implementation.

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