It's not uncommon for an intro programming class to write a Lisp metacircular evaluator. Has there been any attempt at doing this for Python? Yes, I know that Lisp's structure and syntax lends it...

Is it legal to call a C compiler written in C or a PHP interpreter written in PHP metacircular? Is this definition valid only for languages of a specific type, like Lisp? In short, what are the con...

I've been programming in Ruby for a while now with just the standard MRI implementation of Ruby, but I've always been curious about the other implementations I hear so much about. I was reading ab...