[gambit-list] Thoughts on Scheme
Hendrik Boom
hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Fri Jan 4 23:24:35 EST 2013
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:
>
> https://gist.github.com/4430394
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
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