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Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list |
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Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:13:10 +0100 |
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Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> I faintly remember discussions back in the early seventies
> to replace "car" and "cdr" (which originally stood for
> "Contents of Address Register" and "Contents of Decrement
> Register", respectively
Cool B)
> and referred to machine instructions on some then modern PDP
> hardware which were used to access the two pointers of
> a cons) with "fst" and "rst" (for "first" and "rest",
> respectively) which could even be nicely combined to "frrst"
> and similar. But this proposal never made it :-(
Was that bad? I think `car' is more open and relaxed
than "fst" ...
PDP BTW,
PDP 1957 Programmed (-able) Data Processor, Digital Equipment minis
so as old as Fortran (1957) and older than Lisp (1958).
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/COMP-HIST
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- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, (continued)
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, tomas, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Marcin Borkowski, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, tomas, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Dr Rainer Woitok, 2022/11/29
- Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list], tomas, 2022/11/29
- Re: Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list], Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list,
Emanuel Berg <=
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/28
Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Dr Rainer Woitok, 2022/11/29
Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/11/30