Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:26:56 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Resources to learn common lisp? References: <874inbqdz7.fsf@mariorosell.es> <110fj4q$1r13s$5@dont-email.me> <110guci$26cjr$1@dont-email.me> <110i789$2iqm8$7@dont-email.me> <110j4qk$2q1p4$1@dont-email.me> <110l0v9$3av52$1@dont-email.me> <110nf0q$3vra6$3@dont-email.me> <87y0gg62cx.fsf@nightsong.com> <110rfqf$142ot$1@dont-email.me> <111ne5o$vsm3$3@dont-email.me> <111pbk6$36pi7$1@dont-email.me> <87qzlqgiyx.fsf@gmail.com> <878q7y10kh.fsf@nightsong.com> <111t1lb$4bes$1@dont-email.me> <87v7b1zsty.fsf@nightsong.com> <111t8dn$6k5d$1@dont-email.me> <87qzlpythv.fsf@nightsong.com> <111urdf$ltvk$3@dont-email.me> <87echozwvv.fsf@nightsong.com> <112a03r$3scqc$3@dont-email.me> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:26:56 -0400 Message-ID: <87fr11tucv.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SuxuXVLNL8zxVun4+re26NdO9r4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 10 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-gYSkeYq5CpviOVshJ3dRd5GHOSOwNLpPBDtUVS1OdJLjmExGb0vO+m6q+qcNeJaWxTJIftveoVoIvww!KmxCZFmmjhWb41E+aB+vg/hbGvUWPBikFD4RNqUXDNHx3VE= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.lisp:61239 Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:37:24 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > > If garbage collection is so good, why don’t OS kernels use it? You are probably using a shitty OS. I remeber that Linux kernel demands 10% of free user space (physical) and it get pissed off without a swap file. No `real` operating system on earth does not use reclamation. unless you are using MS-DOS.