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		lubutu on Jan 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla's Narcissus meta-circular JavaScript inter... You 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 on Jan 11, 2012 [–]

It's currently 4AM here, so I cannot reason right :) If I misunderstood your point, my deepest apologies.

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