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		ogogmad on Aug 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage!' (1992)... Is it possible to simulate a Turing machine in Linear Lisp without using exponential memory?

abecedarius on Aug 8, 2022 [–]

Can't you represent the tape as a pair of lists of symbols? Why would that go exponential?

ogogmad on Aug 9, 2022 | [–]

I agree, that should work. Thanks.

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