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This is a fascinating post. It reads to me like some kind of cross between literate-programming and poetry. It's really trying to explain the idea that when you run `just foo` the very 0x0A byte comes from possibly hundreds of cycles of code generation. Back in the day, someone encoded this information into OCaml compiler -- somehow -- and years later here in my computer 0x0A information is stored due to this history.

But the way in which this phenomena is explained is via actual code. The code itself is besides the point of course, it's not like anyone will ever run or compile this specific code, but it's put there for humans to follow the discussion.



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