Peter Seibel personal blog
They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing (2005)
Lists play an important role in Lisp--for reasons both historical and practical. Historically, lists were Lisp's original composite data type, though it has been decades since they were its only such data type. These days, a Common Lisp programmer is as likely to use a vector, a hash table, or a user-defined class or…
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Programming LanguagesSoftware Engineering2022
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 2022 | They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing (2005) by susam | 115 | 122 |
