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Preformatted text on HN is really hard to read on mobile. Reformatted: (SF) If nothing else, Lisp was carefully defined in terms of Lisp. (AK) Yes, that was
by WalterGR 8y ago
Preformatted text on HN is really hard to read on mobile. Reformatted:
(SF) If nothing else, Lisp was carefully defined in terms of Lisp.
(AK) Yes, that was the big revelation to me when I was in
graduate school—when I finally understood that the half
page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5
manual was Lisp in itself. These were “Maxwell’s
Equations of Software!” This is the whole world of
programming in a few lines that I can put my hand over.
Page 13
of that manual is page 21 of this PDF: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...