Was there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?
Was there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?
How did they implement allocate a new cons cell?
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Malloc 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.