scripting language vs. developer community size

[Clark Jones]

Tyson Dowd wrote:
> 
> On 15-Jan-2001, Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu> 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.
> 
> Hmm... C++ has a PDP-11 instruction in its *name*... ;-)

Just in case anyone's not aware of it, the "CAR" and "CDR" in Lisp (I'm
not familiar with Scheme) are register names for a computer designed in
the late 1950's.  (Please don't ask me what the acronyms stand for, or
what the computer was -- I haven't dealt with that in about 15 or 20
years.)  I rather suspect that "CAR" and "CDR" will still be used even
when only crusty old curmudgeons like me remember what a "Pentium III"
was...

						Clark
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