News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:The Memory Models That Underlie Programming Languages by pg314 on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:23AM (#13295426)
> nor base everything on linked lists.

It seems your comment implies that Lisp bases everything on linked lists. That is a misconception. As early as Lisp 1.5 (1962), arrays were available (see section 4.4 of [1]).

[1] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...

Re:The Memory Models That Underlie Programming Languages by kazinator on Sunday January 01, 2017 @03:32PM (#13297176)
Moreover, the submitted article itself makes it clear that when it says "LISP’s only data-structuring mechanism is something called a cons, which consists of two pointers" it is talking about Lisp 1.0. It also acknowledges that LISP is called Lisp now, too,