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to: SHAMIM ISLAM
from: ERIK WARMELINK
date: 1997-04-05 04:18:00
subject: LISP

Shamim Islam wrote in a message to Jerry Coffin:
 JC> Rather the contrary - the interpreter is entirely possible.  It just
 JC> can't be run on a machine.  Some languages have been put to consider
 SI> Sorry. This is what I meant to say. That you can't generate a 
 SI> functioning implementation without having something else to 
 SI> base the writing of it in, even if it means writing the 
 SI> individual machine code bytes.
The interpreter Jerry referred to, will run quite smoothly on neurons, so it 
_is_ a fully functional implementation IMNSHO. Silicon isn't the only 
substrate for algorithms. :-)
Bye,
 Erik 
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