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"Maxwell's equations of software" examined (2008)
A recent post quotes Alan Kay's statement that expressing Lisp in itself is the " Maxwell's Equations of Software ": Yes, that was the bi...
These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!” This quote appears many places on the web, but the code itself is harder to find. (Unfortunately, this won't give you a working Lisp interpreter for free; things such as the garbage collector, the list primitives, and parsing need to be implemented somewhere. In brief, apply implements CAR, CDR, CONS, ATOM, and EQ in terms of the primitives.
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