Comment Comment by mroll Nice article. Check out Paul graham's The Roots of Lisp for a similar exploration in which he shows how to build the metacircular interpreter.> John McCarthy wrote 6 easy things in machine codeIt was actually Steve Russel, McCarthy's grad student, who had the idea of writing McCarthy's eval function in machine code. parent mroll 10 years ago
> John McCarthy wrote 6 easy things in machine code
It was actually Steve Russel, McCarthy's grad student, who had the idea of writing McCarthy's eval function in machine code.