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meta-circular

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So you mean a meta-circular OOP implementation, where the hosting language already has car, cdr and cons.

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So you mean a meta-circular OOP implementation, where the hosting language already has car, cdr and cons.

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So you mean a meta-circular OOP implementation, where the hosting language already has car, cdr and cons.

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Also the desire to go meta-circular and reduce even more the amount of C++ code.

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There are meta-circular implementations of Java and C# compilers, that people keep forgetting about.

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Then there are those meta-circular JVMs like JikesRVM which are done in Java.

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No, because there are(will be in Go's case) meta-circular implementations available.

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Pity, since I learned about Maxime and JikesRVM back in the day, I have looked forward to the day the reference JVM would be meta-circular.

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That is how meta-circular implementations work anyway.

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That's the exact principle I'm talking about- meta-circular implementations shrink the amount of unsafe code and confine it to specific places where it can be better tested and checked.

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Yes, you can JIT compile a python interpreter, but how many years have they worked on special cases for that, and how much farther would they have gone if they hadn't used the meta-circular approach and just addressed the real problem to begin with[1]?

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How do you use meta-circular in a sentence?

So you mean a meta-circular OOP implementation, where the hosting language already has car, cdr and cons.