One of those exercises that are now just boring, because AI does it better.
My Lisp from 1975 was actually used in real world and highly lucrative. Gemini could read the source code, but it told that my code was piece of shit and cannot be implemented in 64-bit world without drastic changes, so it made an example. But that version was just too advanced and too complex as a study subject. There are already enuff good Lisps in the world, methinks.
Why did you replace your very similar comment with "--" just to post essentially the same thing again?