Lisp as a Y combinator

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Lisp is the fixed point of the process which says, if I know what Lisp was and substituted it in for eval and apply and so on, on the right-hand sides of all those recursion equations, then if it was a real good Lisp, is a real one then the left-hand side would also be Lisp.

— Gerald Jay Sussman

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Process: This refers to the act of defining or implementing Lisp. Specifically, it’s about defining Lisp’s core functions like eval and apply which are crucial for interpreting and executing Lisp code.

— Me@2024-12-30 10:45:35 AM

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