Subject: Re: Ruby style
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 04:42:55 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <W6ydnfiH5qyyv26gXTWc3Q@giganews.com>
Kent M Pitman  <pitman@world.std.com> wrote:
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| The reason CAR/CDR persist isn't lack of alternatives.  It's simple history.
| 
| Maybe we should erradicate all history from the language.  
| Let's get rid of names like LAMBDA next.
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Yeah, right. (Although I sometimes admit to myself that I kinda like
ML's use of "FN" for anonymous functions...)

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| Maybe after we finish iwth Lisp we could go after English itself.
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As in <URL:http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~heiney/jokes/twain.html>?

[Though <URL:http://users.telerama.com/~joseph/simple.html> is
claimed by other sources to be an actual Mark Twain article, one
of his last.]


-Rob

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