A new blog post by "sigfpe" is fun:

The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura
http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/05/three-projections-of-doctor-futamura.html

I found this to be a particularly interesting passage:

"If we have a specialiser we never need to make a compiler again. We
need only design interpreters that we can automatically convert to
compilers. In general it's easier to write interpreters than compilers
and so in principle this makes life easier for programmers. It also
allows us to compartmentalise the building of compilers."
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