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by jjtheblunt 334 days ago
It's instructive to read the Guy Steele papers from 48ish years ago like

"Lambda: The Ultimate Goto"

( https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lambda:_The_Ultimate_GOTO )

as they go into how the Lisp-y abstractions can correspond to machine code (as in interpreters and compilers).

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Yea, all the Lambda: The Ultimate…” papers are great.