<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/13 Frank Duncan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herbieman2000@gmail.com" target="_blank">herbieman2000@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_AllSym.htm" target="_blank">http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_AllSym.htm</a><br><br>Most of the symbols seem self explanatory to me...?<div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#car"><b>car</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_case_.htm#case"><b>case</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_catch.htm#catch"><b>catch</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_case_.htm#ccase"><b>ccase</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdaaar"><b>cdaaar</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdaadr"><b>cdaadr</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdaar"><b>cdaar</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdadar"><b>cdadar</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdaddr"><b>cdaddr</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdadr"><b>cdadr</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdar"><b>cdar</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cddaar"><b>cddaar</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cddadr"><b>cddadr</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cddar"><b>cddar</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdddar"><b>cdddar</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cddddr"><b>cddddr</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdddr"><b>cdddr</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cddr"><b>cddr</b></a>
</li><li><a rel="DEFINITION" href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdr"><b>cdr</b></a>
</li><br>I never realized these were all defined. After I discovered they went all the way up to four levels deep, I assumed it was implemented using some horrible hack, like a reader macro that transformed /c[ad]*r/ into the appropriate series of car/cdr calls at read-time. <br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Tal Liron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tal.liron@threecrickets.com" target="_blank">tal.liron@threecrickets.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Heh, also great for neurotics, when you need to punch in 20
close-parentheses signs in succession... )))))))))))))))))))))<div><div><br>
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<div>On 11/13/2012 02:48 PM, Randall Baxley
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<td style="font:inherit" valign="top">LISP like APL was
born in a time of doing things with four byte words and
many learned machine languages or assembly before a higher
level language which builds a sort of language all of it's
own and English words get shortened to three or four
letter replacements. Major dmag to spln as well. Great
for slow fingers though.<br>
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--- On <b>Tue, 11/13/12, Tal Liron <i><a href="mailto:tal.liron@threecrickets.com" target="_blank"><tal.liron@threecrickets.com></a></i></b>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px"><span style="font-size:10pt">3) This cuts a bite close to
home: part of what I hate, hate, hate about the Lisp
world (which I otherwise love) is its fetishization of
succinctness. Functions have the weirdest, shortest
names that tell you basically nothing about what they
do. You just, like, gotta be in the know, you know?
People in that world love to have philosophical
discussions about how succinctness == clarity, but
some of us like to get work done in the real world,
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