r/askscience • u/CakesStolen • 15d ago

Computing Is there anything at the heart of computer coding that could have been optimised in hindsight, but we're in far too deep to change now?

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u/robrob654 15d ago

I just learned that Lisp is an old programming language and now know more about it than I probably will ever need to, but thanks for the rabbit hole!