Which language was the CLR's garbage collection written in? (the answer may surprise you)
I was talking to a former MSFT employee who worked on the CLR team. The conversation drifted towards languages used to implement virtual machines. Here's what I learnt.
The CLR's Garbage Collection was initially written in Lisp by a Patrick Dussud (I can't find a blog). This code was then run through a Lisp->C converter which was then cleaned up by an intern.
No more arguments about the practicality of Lisp from yours truly. I'm truly stunned.