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Lisp 1.5 was using tagged pointers by 1962, and I don’t think it was innovative in this regard at the time.
by drfuchs 7y ago
Lisp 1.5 was using tagged pointers by 1962, and I don’t think it was innovative in this regard at the time.
- db48x 7y agoOnly because the computer it was on already had a tag field in every word. Other implementations of Lisp did similar things though: https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-09-04-lisp-numbers/ https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-09-04-lisp-number...
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