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<h3 class="subsection">2.7.4 A Simple Lisp Like Language</h3>

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<p>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 <code>silly</code>
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, <code>silly</code> is not recommended
for serious application development, but at least it has a shallow
learning curve.<a name="DOCF1" href="avram_fot.html#FOOT1">(1)</a>
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