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I'm not here to debate the virtues of linked-lists, I'm just pointing out that they're extremely idiomatic in Lisp, so it's weird to implement a basic Lisp that

I'm not here to debate the virtues of linked-lists, I'm just pointing out that they're extremely idiomatic in Lisp, so it's weird to implement a basic Lisp that doesn't use them, because anybody running idiomatic code in it will be in for a big surprise.

karmakaze 5y ago
Clojure already started the trend with renaming car/cdr and favouring vectors in places.
- lispm 5y ago
  In Common Lisp: first and rest. The languages also provides functions working over both lists and vectors -> sequences.