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by omginternets 3204 days ago
Gotcha, but then (unless I'm misunderstanding) one of these interpreters is not like the other. Namely, assembly 'interpretation' happens on bare metal. Were you previously suggesting that understanding a lisp interpreter will help in understanding CPU architecture?

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I was replying more to jospar's post about learning what an 'if' was, what a 'boolean' was, etc. What's an 'if'? Ultimately it's a comparison of two numbers and a transfer of control based upon said comparison. Some architectures that's one instruction, some two.