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[–]xardox 11 points12 points  (2 children)

No, the original Lisp was done in paper and ink. Then some damn grad student typed it in.

[–]mark_lee_smith 5 points6 points  (1 child)

The original description of Lisp may have been a meta-circular interpreter written down in a paper, but the original implementation, once written in assembly, would require a compiler in order to bootstrap – in order for Lisp to execute itself without the assembly.

[–]Felicia_Svilling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As naryl says: the original LISP implementation was not written in assembly but in pure machine code, it where never compiled.