2.7.4 A Simple Lisp Like Language

With a universal computational model already at our disposal, it will be easier to use the virtual machine to specify itself than to define all of it from scratch. For this purpose, we use the silly programming language, whose name is an acronym for SImple Lisp-like Language (Yeah right). The language serves essentially as a thin layer of symbolic names on top of the virtual machine code. Due to its poor support for modularity and abstraction, silly is not recommended for serious application development, but at least it has a shallow learning curve.(1)

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