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It seems a bit of a stretch to describe that program as an implementation of a Lisp interpreter, then.


In case the given host implementation can be AOT compiled, the resulting binary will for all practical purposes be a LISP interpreter. Bootstrapping isn’t rare in this area.


This sounds like "Given that modern Javascript engines have JIT capabilities, the eval() function is for all practical purposes a Javascript interpreter"...


I agree that the resulting binary is a Lisp interpreter.

But I don't think the program presented in this link was its implementation.




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