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I was curious about "3-lisp". It seems to be this

http://www.cofault.com/2022/08/3-lisp-infinite-tower-of-meta...

Discussed three months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614795

Gregor Kiczales, one of the guys behind the MOP, gave a retrospective on the MOP [1], in which he did touch on the influence of Brian C. Smith's Ph.D. thesis and 3-Lisp. One thing he said (as I recall - I'm paraphrasing here) was that 3-Lisp got quoting right, and if he'd read Smith's thesis a tenth (!) time he might have understood that in time to make the requisite changes to the MOP. I want to read the thesis myself, but it's something like 700+ pages.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20060821003818/http://bc.tech.co...

The bit I was thinking of starts around 29:45 in the audio linked above, runs to about 33:30. Note that the audio quality is somewhat bad - the retrospective was at a meeting in a restaurant with a band playing in the background.

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