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1401 points alankay | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.254s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
1. throwathrowaway ◴[] No.11951935[source]
Is there any instructions for getting the Frank system (that you show off at talk) on a Linux computer? Even instructions with some missing steps to be filled in. It would beat recreating things from scratch from glimpses.

I find it much easier to explore with a concrete copies that can be queried with inputs and outputs, even if they are far from their platonic ideals. For example, the Ometa interpreter I wrote recently was much easier to make by bootstrapping the creation of an initial tree from the output of an existing implementations of Ometa.