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An entire page of how they were trying to implement in various ways, including FORTRAN. Then, suddenly: "S.R. Russell noticed that eval could serve as an inte
by yvdriess 13y ago
An entire page of how they were trying to implement in various ways, including FORTRAN.
Then, suddenly:
"S.R. Russell noticed that eval could serve as an interpreter for LISP, promptly hand coded it, and we now had a programming language with an interpreter."
- samatman 13y agoIndeed. Lisp is a hack that got totally out of hand. M-expressions were kept around for years as conceptual technical debt before the YAGNI moment.