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Re:Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional progr... by edejong on Saturday July 13, 2019 @06:55AM (#20427463)
In LISP-like languages a compiler/interpeter is a simple example.
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Re:Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional progr... by kazinator on Sunday July 14, 2019 @12:28AM (#20431637)
https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/tree/master/src/compiler

Doesn't look simple to me.

This one is in one file, but more than half a megabyte of code spanning close to 12000 lines:

https://github.com/clisp-lang/clisp/blob/master/src/compiler...

The Emacs Lisp byte compiler also doesn't look like a good small example for neophytes:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/emacs-l...

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