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juliangamble
on Dec 17, 2016
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The Idea of Lisp
How many primitives does it take to build a LISP machine? Is it ten, seven or five? (And how many did McCarthy use?)
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kazinator
on Dec 17, 2016
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None of the above. Consider that symbols are objects which have a name property, which is a character string. None of the cited primitives can construct a character string and intern a symbol in that name.
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