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by swiftcoder 2005 days ago
it's relevant in this case because most simple Lisp-like interpreters are written in... Lisp (or at least one of the many other Lisp-like languages).

Interpreting a simple lisp-like in lisp is borderline trivial. Interpreting a simple lisp-like in an imperative language demonstrates a significantly more fundamental understanding of how lisp-like languages work.