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John McCartey had amazing prescience given that Lisp was created in 1956 and the RISC revolution wasn't until at least 1974.

There's certainly some dynamic language support in CPUs: the indirect branch predictors and target predictors wouldn't be as large if there wasn't so much JavaScript and implementations that make those circuits work well.



Half of the Dragon Book is about parsing and the other half is about reconciling the lambda calculus (any programming language with recursive functions) with the Von Newman/Turing approach to computation. Lisp manages to skip the first.




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