Re: [stack] Advantages of cat, joy ..?
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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William Tanksley scripsit: > Lisp, like APL, was originally created as a tool for thought, not for > computers. car and cdr could not have been in the original at all; they > were an artifact of the first implementation. The "Early Lisp History" paper at http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/lisp/histlit1.html definitely shows otherwise: Lisp was designed from the beginning as a programming language, and was specific to the IBM 704: in addition to car and cdr, there were also cpr, csr, cir, and ctr selectors (and cwr to select the whole word) and corresponding setters, and two relatives of cons, consw (whole word) and consls (sublist). -- Work hard, John Cowan play hard, [email protected] die young, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan rot quickly.