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I saw a great paper on their dialect a while ago. Will try and find it and edit this with a link. Check out passage 3.4; it goes into detail on their garbage c

I saw a great paper on their dialect a while ago. Will try and find it and edit this with a link. Check out passage 3.4; it goes into detail on their garbage collector. L – A Common Lisp for Embedded Systems Rodney A. Brooks and Charles Rosenberg IS Robotics [now iRobot Corporation, the famous floor vacuum company] 1995 https://web.archive.org/web/20041031144839/http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/pubpg/luv95.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20041031144839/http://www-2.cs.c...

MengerSponge 5y ago
Whoosh :)
- metagame 5y ago
  I got the joke, but I still find the dialect fascinating enough that I will pretend to take one of the many jokes of Don Hopkins literally to get an excuse to post that paper.
  - tephra 5y ago
    IIRC I saw a comment on lambda-the-ultimate years ago that said that this paper was great but there are no hints of any implementation or anything since it was swept up by irobot.
    - metagame 5y ago
      It wasn't swept up (ha!) by iRobot. IS Robotics changed their name to iRobot. If you're skeptic, check Wikipedia for the first author on that paper.
- DonHopkins 5y ago
  That's the sound the garbage collector makes! ;)