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dixie_land 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes

But brainfuck is Turing complete so you can bootstrap a LISP interpreter from brainfuck, thus making it "real"

IshKebab 6 months ago [–]

That's really missing the point of this challenge.

odo1242 6 months ago | [–]

I mean, the Lisp here technically uses the same approach - it runs just enough Lisp to boostrap the remaining functionality on top of what is provided.

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