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Re:Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages by omginternets on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:31AM (#15236496)
Gotcha, but then (unless I'm misunderstanding) one of these interpreters is not like the other. Namely, assembly 'interpretation' happens on bare metal. Were you previously suggesting that understanding a lisp interpreter will help in understanding CPU architecture?

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Re:Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages by spc476 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:56PM (#15243097)
I was replying more to jospar's post about learning what an 'if' was, what a 'boolean' was, etc. What's an 'if'? Ultimately it's a comparison of two numbers and a transfer of control based upon said comparison. Some architectures that's one instruction, some two.
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