scripting language vs. developer community size

Rob Browning rlb@cs.utexas.edu
16 Jan 2001 13:00:02 -0600


grib@gnumatic.com (Bill Gribble) writes:

> The basic data structure in Scheme (and all LISP-like languages... in
> fact LISP is an acronym for LIst PRocessing) is the singly-linked
> list.  The backbone of the list is a chain of cells ("cons cells")
> that have a pointer to the cell data and a "next" pointer to the
> remainder of the list.  

And anyone who's familiar with glib, LISP lists are somewhat similar
to GSLists.  GLists are actually doubly linked...

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