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Questions about genesis and development of computer science as a scientific discipline and its applications.
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Why pointer dereference was once called "decrement"?
OK, I found a lead. Just needed to know what to search for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_and_CDR
The 704 and its successors has a 36-bit word length and a 15-bit address space. These compute …
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Why pointer dereference was once called "decrement"?
I'm reading McCarthy's paper Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions And Their Computation by Machine, where when the author describes the machine implementation of lists, he writes this:
a. R …
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