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		gentooflux 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition Nothing as in "from scratch", as opposed to Nothing as in "Visual Basic's NULL".

nils-m-holm 89 days ago [–]

Yes, the book is about the bootstrapping of LISP, both in a historical and practical context. Hence "from nothing".

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