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Lecture 7A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
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Lecture 7A of the 1986 MIT 6.001 SICP course, with Gerald Sussman presenting the metacircular evaluator, part 1. It shows how a Lisp evaluator can be written in Lisp itself.
HN commenters cite it as the classic explanation of eval and the meta-circular evaluator.
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