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	▲	thesz 3 hours ago
		`> Dion language demo (experimental project which stores program as AST).` Michael Franz [1] invented slim binaries [2] for the Oberon System. Slim binaries were program (or module) ASTs compressed with the some kind of LZ-family algorithm. At the time they were much more smaller than Java's JAR files, despite JAR being a ZIP archive. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franz#Research [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)#Plug... I believe that this storage format is still in use in Oberon circles. Yes, I am that old, I even correctly remembered Franz's last name. I thought then he was and still think he is a genius. ;)