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Parent interpreter is not host, it is JavaScript. No one said that parent and child interpreters cannot have the same language :)
by stralep 15y ago
Parent interpreter is not host, it is JavaScript. No one said that parent and child interpreters cannot have the same language :)
- lubutu 15y agoYou misunderstand: the parent interpreter is JavaScript, yes, but the child interpreter does not rely on the parent's evaluation semantics, which means it is not a metacircular evaluator, it's just a self-interpreter. See the Wikipedia article for more information.
- stralep 15y agoIt's currently 4AM here, so I cannot reason right :) If I misunderstood your point, my deepest apologies.