Lecture 7A: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 1

MIT OpenCourseWareLength: 1 hour 24 minutesCompilers, interpreters & program analysis

In brief

Lecture 7A from MIT 6.001 (SICP) by Abelson and Sussman introduces the metacircular evaluator, a Scheme interpreter written in Scheme. It shows how evaluating a program is itself a program.

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