splatt9990@lemmy.mltoLisp Community@lemmy.ml•Was there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?English
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8 months agoMalloc is a C function and wouldn’t come around for another 15 years or so. They likely wrote memory allocation code directly in machine code/assembly which could and would just access raw memory directly.
Sort of. Each book is usually it’s own self-contained story (the exception being book #2 which is a direct sequel to #1) but many books follow up on characters that were introduced in previous books. You don’t have to have read any of the previous books to understand the story you picked up, but there’s some continuity and references if you have. It’s kind of like several different novel series all set in the same shared universe rather than a true anthology though.