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> nor base everything on linked lists. It seems your comment implies that Lisp bases everything on linked lists. That is a misconception. As early as Lisp 1.5
by pg314 10y ago
> nor base everything on linked lists.
It seems your comment implies that Lisp bases everything on linked lists. That is a misconception. As early as Lisp 1.5 (1962), arrays were available (see section 4.4 of [1]).
[1] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...
- kazinator 10y agoMoreover, the submitted article itself makes it clear that when it says "LISP’s only data-structuring mechanism is something called a cons, which consists of two pointers" it is talking about Lisp 1.0. It also acknowledges that LISP is called Lisp now, too,