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		herdrick on Sept 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICFP '09: "Get rid of cons!" Guy Steele on paralle... I don't think so. Lisp code is already a tree.

gruseom on Sept 11, 2009 [–]

It's a tree in the sense that a list is a tree.

herdrick on Sept 11, 2009 | [–]

No, it's really a tree structure. In fact lisp code is much like the abstract syntax tree that you get when you parse other languages.

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