>>> what is the point of  metacircular interpreter or compiler? do they
>>> help with analysis or something?
>>> it's interesting but is it useful? I can't think of anything useful.
>>> do they help catching bugs? please give examples. thanks.
>> A metacirular interpreter gives you an interactive environment in
>> which to prototype new languages or new language features. I was
>> surprised to find out that the first smalltalk implementation was
>> written in BASIC, for that very reason.

> sooner or later people are going to realize that they have never
> advanced beyond BASIC for the simple reason that the underlying
> machine is the "BASICALLY" the same, unless quantum computers are
> available.... no one has managed to "close" the "algebra" of
> programming language in any meaningful way...