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		drmeister on Aug 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: History of Lisp (1979) [pdf] You aren’t wrong - they did and keep doing it. ;-) IMHO that’s why Common Lisp is decades ahead of other languages. Lisp made its mistakes in the 60‘s and 70‘s and largely corrected them in Common Lisp in the 80’s.

nicetryguy on Aug 27, 2018 [–]

i mean, that garbage collection was fucking abysmal!

You seem much more knowledgable than me....

We talking turbo pascal levels or what?

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