@Unpublished{ABA:96:Pippenger, author = "Amir M. Ben-Amram", year = "1996", title = "Notes on Pippenger's Comparison of Pure and Impure {LISP}", month = jun, keywords = "LISP, pure LISP, mutation, destructive update, selective update", summary = "This notes arose from a talk, in which I discussed Pippenger's recent result on Pure versus Impure LISP (paper in POPL '96). They include an explanation of the nature and significance of Pippenger's results, a discussion of the limitations of the result and ensuing open problems, and finally of certain follow-ups.", puf = "Working paper", }