[Chicago] LISP was Factoring fun with functions in Python

[Damon Wang]

2012/11/13 Frank Duncan <herbieman2000 at gmail.com>

> http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_AllSym.htm
>
> Most of the symbols seem self explanatory to me...?
>
>
*car*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#car>
*case*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_case_.htm#case>
*catch*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_catch.htm#catch>
*ccase*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_case_.htm#ccase>
*cdaaar*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdaaar>
*cdaadr*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdaadr>
*cdaar*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdaar>
*cdadar*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdadar>
*cdaddr*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdaddr>
*cdadr*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdadr>
*cdar*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdar>
*cddaar*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cddaar>
*cddadr*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cddadr>
*cddar*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cddar>
*cdddar*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdddar>
*cddddr*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cddddr>
*cdddr*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdddr>
*cddr*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cddr>
*cdr*<http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_c.htm#cdr>
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.

Wang

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> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Tal Liron <tal.liron at threecrickets.com>wrote:
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>>  Heh, also great for neurotics, when you need to punch in 20
>> close-parentheses signs in succession... )))))))))))))))))))))
>>
>>
>> On 11/13/2012 02:48 PM, Randall Baxley wrote:
>>
>>   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.
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 11/13/12, Tal Liron <tal.liron at threecrickets.com><tal.liron at threecrickets.com>
>> * wrote:
>>
>> 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, don't we.
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