William Byrd on “The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written“

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored and hosted by Two Sigma (@twosigma) and Chartbeat (@Chartbeat) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ------------------ William E. Byrd “explores what he considers to be the most beautiful program ever written---a Lisp interpreter written in Lisp---and a few of the many amazing ideas related to this metacircular interpreter.“ References - The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen - Essentials of Programming Languages by Daniel P. Friedman and Mitchell Wand - John McCarthy’s Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I - LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual by John McCarthy, Paul W. Abrahams, Daniel J. Edwa