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by 7thaccount 849 days ago
Oh I agree that a Lisp machine or Smalltalk machine is turtles all the way down. The only problem is that it seems like there isn't really a good modern option with fully modern libraries and all that. Mathematica is a nice tool for exploring all kinds of computations in a manner that is kind of similar to lisp with brackets if you squint. That may or may not be of use to some on here. I only mention it as I don't think many in the CS field get exposed to it.
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> I only mention it as I don't think many in the CS field get exposed to it.

Because it is a specialized commercial offering.

> Oh I agree that a Lisp machine or Smalltalk machine is turtles all the way down.

Many non-Lisp-Machine Lisps are also mostly written in itself. Implementations like SBCL provide a wide spectrum of performance.