From the book LISP From Nothing.
Loading or copy-pasting this program in a Common Lisp system willl evaluate the quoted expression at the end of the code using the EVAL function in the LABEL. The LABEL expression itself is metacircular, i.e. it can evaluate itself. See the Scheme version for examples.
;;; META-CIRCULAR INTERPRETER ;;; NILS M HOLM, 2019, 2020 ;;; ;;; IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN ;;; (CC0 APPLIES WHEN THERE IS NO PUBLIC DOMAIN) ;;; ;;; BASED ON JOHN MCCARTHY'S MICRO MANUAL FOR LISP, ;;; HOPL II PROCEEDINGS, 1978 (DEFMACRO LABEL (B X) `(LABELS ,(MAPCAR (LAMBDA (A) (LET ((F (CADR A))) `(,(CAR A) ,(CADR F) ,(CADDR F)))) B) ,X)) (LABEL ((LOOKUP (LAMBDA (X E) (COND ((EQ NIL E) NIL) ((EQ X (CAAR E)) (CADAR E)) (T (LOOKUP X (CDR E)))))) (EVCON (LAMBDA (C E) (COND ((XEVAL (CAAR C) E) (XEVAL (CADAR C) E)) (T (EVCON (CDR C) E))))) (BIND (LAMBDA (V A E) (COND ((EQ V NIL) E) (T (CONS (CONS (CAR V) (CONS (XEVAL (CAR A) E) NIL)) (BIND (CDR V) (CDR A) E)))))) (APPEND2 (LAMBDA (A B) (COND ((EQ A NIL) B) (T (CONS (CAR A) (APPEND2 (CDR A) B)))))) (XEVAL (LAMBDA (X E) (COND ((EQ X T) T) ((ATOM X) (LOOKUP X E)) ((ATOM (CAR X)) (COND ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE QUOTE)) (CADR X)) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE ATOM)) (ATOM (XEVAL (CADR X) E))) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE EQ)) (EQ (XEVAL (CADR X) E) (XEVAL (CADR (CDR X)) E))) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE CAR)) (CAR (XEVAL (CADR X) E))) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE CDR)) (CDR (XEVAL (CADR X) E))) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE CAAR)) (CAAR (XEVAL (CADR X) E))) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE CADR)) (CADR (XEVAL (CADR X) E))) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE CDAR)) (CDAR (XEVAL (CADR X) E))) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE CADAR)) (CADAR (XEVAL (CADR X) E))) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE CADDR)) (CADDR (XEVAL (CADR X) E))) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE CONS)) (CONS (XEVAL (CADR X) E) (XEVAL (CADDR X) E))) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE COND)) (EVCON (CDR X) E)) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE LABEL)) (XEVAL (CADDR X) (APPEND2 (CADR X) E))) ((EQ NIL (CAR X)) (QUOTE *UNDEFINED)) ((EQ (CAR X) (QUOTE LAMBDA)) X) (T (XEVAL (CONS (XEVAL (CAR X) E) (CDR X)) E)))) ((EQ (CAAR X) (QUOTE LAMBDA)) (XEVAL (CADR (CDAR X)) (BIND (CADAR X) (CDR X) E))))))) (XEVAL (QUOTE (LABEL ((APPEND (LAMBDA (A B) (COND ((EQ A NIL) B) (T (CONS (CAR A) (APPEND (CDR A) B))))))) (APPEND (QUOTE (A B C)) (QUOTE (D E F))))) NIL))