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by _murphys_law_ 4044 days ago
I thought the article did very well in providing an introductory resource to students hoping to learn more about the structure of an interpreter. On the other hand, if one wanted a nearly identical, and possibly more rigorous approach to learning about implementing a "tiny lisp" Peter Norvig's lispy implementation is a wonderful resource: http://norvig.com/lispy.html ... of course any computer scientist studying languages should also have read Mcarthy - http://www.cse.sc.edu/~mgv/csce330f13/micromanualLISP.pdf