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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by kbp on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:37AM (#18228178)
> What?? In chapter 4, you write your own Lisp interpreter. If they had chosen C++, would you be writing a C++ compiler? Or a Lisp interpreter in C++?

That's in chapter 5 :)

Exercise 5.51. Develop a rudimentary implementation of Scheme in C (or some other low-level language of your choice) by translating the explicit-control evaluator of section 5.4 into C. In order to run this code you will need to also provide appropriate storage-allocation routines and other run-time support.

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by default-kramer on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @12:43PM (#18230845)
Ha, well I guess my secret's out - I skipped some of the exercises! And I'm not surprised to see I skipped that one. Even now, 5.51 and 5.52 seem like they would be more hard than fun. But given that SICP is my favorite CS book, maybe I owe it to myself to go for 100% completion.
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