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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JMC spoke of Steve Russell "fixing bugs" when he hand-translated eval into machine language to make the first Lisp interpreter. I've always assumed it was the same bug but I have no way of knowing.
It turns out I described the bug, and some other things I discovered, in the notes of "The Roots of Lisp." In the last clause of eval, (evlis (cdr e) a) should be just (cdr e). There's also a variable capture in his maplist. http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/jmc.ps …
