Shane Celis on Nostr: Lisp really just went linked-list to the max. We'll use linked lists for everything: ...
Lisp really just went linked-list to the max. We'll use linked lists for everything: data structures, code, key-value tables. We'll heap allocate each node. We'll have a pointer to the next node. We'll garbage collect. It's kind of crazy thing to do especially since it looks expensive _today_ but they started it in the '50s! #lisp
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