Any programmer reading this will think "Could this be done for code?" followed by "What code would stand up to it?" followed by "Maybe I could write some..." http://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics
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The original LISP eval certainly would stand up to it.
You'd get a surprise though. Did you know there was a bug in it?
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Oh my, I had no idea! I've read that reasonably carefully, too. Not to mention having written an implementation, both in Python, and in the resulting mini-Lisp.
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I don't remember where it was, but I encountered it when I tried to translate JMC's eval into CL. You could presumably find it by comparing that code to JMC's. https://gist.github.com/adlai/3cd4fcbca02aab926dab …
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