Here's a comment by Patrick Dussud on an old blog entry explaining the LISP origins of the GC: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patrick_dussud/2006/11/21/how-i

Here's a comment by Patrick Dussud on an old blog entry explaining the LISP origins of the GC: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patrick_dussud/2006/11/21/how-it-all-startedaka-the-birth-of-the-clr/#comment-163 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patrick_dussud/2006/11/21/h... I thought I knew a thing or two about .NET, having used it since beta days, I had no idea LISP was used to bootstrap the original GC code. Fascinating stuff. I've archived it here just in case: http://archive.is/1qk25 http://archive.is/1qk25 Patrick is also interviewed on Channel9 and he talks about the GC. Not watched it yet: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Patrick-Dussud-Garbage-Collection-Past-Present-and-Future https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Patrick-Dussud-Ga...