Re: [stack] Advantages of cat, joy ..?
Don Groves <[email protected]>
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On Feb 23, 2009, at 8:20 PM, John Cowan wrote: > Don Groves scripsit: > >> Most of us already do that. "cdr" made perfectly good sense to early >> Lispers as "contents of decrement register," but, I agree, "tail" >> would >> have been better even then. > > I doubt if it made sense to anybody except the assembly-language > hackers > who implemented it. "First" and "rest", I think, go back to nearly > the beginning. I thought those assembly language hackers were the early Lispers. -- don > -- > Values of beeta will give rise to dom! John Cowan > (5th/6th edition 'mv' said this if you tried http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > to rename '.' or '..' entries; see [email protected] > http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html)