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A systems programming language need not eschew GC. Zetalisp and Common Lisp are perfectly fine for Lisp Machine operating system implementation, without falling
by eschaton 10y ago
A systems programming language need not eschew GC. Zetalisp and Common Lisp are perfectly fine for Lisp Machine operating system implementation, without falling back to a language other than assembly for isolated bits of the very lowest-level code. Mezzano reaffirms this on x86-64 too.