I encountered a literal version of this the other day. I’ve been looking at some disused AI systems, which were all written in Lisp back in the day. In an att

I encountered a literal version of this the other day. I’ve been looking at some disused AI systems, which were all written in Lisp back in the day. In an attempt to remain relevant, at one point in the early 2000s someone tried porting one of them to Java. By first writing a Lisp interpreter in early 2000s Java. So the system had all the old dynamic Lisp programs as giant strings, embedded in a fugly static class hierarchy.