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How many primitives does it take to build a LISP machine? Is it ten, seven or five? (And how many did McCarthy use?) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3482389
by juliangamble 10y ago
How many primitives does it take to build a LISP machine? Is it ten, seven or five? (And how many did McCarthy use?)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3482389/how-many-primitives-does-it-take-to-build-a-lisp-machine-ten-seven-or-five http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3482389/how-many-primitiv...
- kazinator 10y agoNone of the above. Consider that symbols are objects which have a name property, which is a character string. None of the cited primitives can construct a character string and intern a symbol in that name.