SI>just exist. Therefore it stands to reason that LISP, although can be
SI>used to write LISP interpreters, was not done that way the first time.
Well, it depends on at what point you consider it to 'exist'.
Languages evolve.  The first implementations are never like the later
versions.  It's sort of like which came first, the chicken, or the egg.
Obviously, the first, original implementation had to be done in some
other language, but, it's more than a little likely that at that time,
the resulting language wasn't LISP.
I remember reading a number of articles on how FORTH was written.  What
it started out as was nothing like what it ended up being when he
finally said, "This is FORTH".  And, at that point, it was written in
itself.  So....
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