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by creepycrawler 1349 days ago
It seems you're suggesting making CDR into an O(N) operation. So for example ordinary list processing algorithms that take O(N) will now be O(N^2).

Anyway, these kind of weird arguments from people who don't get it have been proposed and shot down a million times before, and I'm not sure there's any value reiterating. I suggest anyone interested in Lisp (or any programming language, really) ignore weird HN critiques and just read a book, like the one linked here.