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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by nickik on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:05AM (#18844051)
The persistent datastructure that clojure used are actually Rich own invention, building on Okasaki and Phil Bagwells.

Phil Bagwells then started working in that direction also, see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2NYwP90bNs

Some of Clojure data structure are pretty much from Okasaki, but Vector or HashMap.

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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by fulafel on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:38AM (#18862563)
There's a talk from Bodil Stokke where she explains (w background) and live-codes the core of Clojure's HashMap algorithm, in TypeScript: https://youtu.be/cUx2b_FO8EQ

Indeed there's novel stuff there.

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