4 Jan
2013
4 Jan
'13
23:24
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 09:34:31PM -0500, Jason Felice wrote:
Hi!
This might not be the right place for this, but I've failed to solicit useful (or any) opinions elsewhere and I imagine some people here would be interested in it.
I drafted a post called "A Critique on the Language Scheme". The draft is here:
car and cdr are *not* leftovers from the PDP-11. They're a lot older than that. They stand for 'construct address reference' and 'construct decrement reference'. 'address' and 'decrement were two fields of the 36-bit word of the IBM 7090 series of machines, dating back to the early 60's -- the machines on which Lisp 1.5 was implemented.
-- hendrik