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		coldtea on April 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Convergence of Modern C++ on the Lisp Programm... Those are no "ties to ASM" in the sense "easy to embed ASM in this language". Those are merely implementation details of early Lisp leaking to the language naming.

betterunix on April 22, 2014 [–]

If that were true it would have been awfully difficult to write operating systems in Lisp, yet OSes were written in Lisp (and the companies that famously did so played a part in the founding of the Free Software Foundation).

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