scripting language vs. developer community size

Dan Kegel dank@alumni.caltech.edu
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:36:19 -0800


Dan Kegel wrote:
> Now I'm reading about car, cdr, caar, cddr, cadr, cdar, and the like.
> How nice that all the keywords of the language are so intuitive and high-level,
> uninfluenced by the hardware the language originally ran on.

Forgot the URL for the origin story of those keywords.  It's
http://home.wxs.nl/~faase009/HaCAR_CDR.html
The guy who picked them tried to change them to something
more sensible, but it was too late by then.
- Dan