Car and cdr (Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme)
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou
tzot at sil-tec.gr
Wed Oct 22 04:12:32 EDT 2003
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:52:07 -0500, rumours say that rpw3 at rpw3.org (Rob
Warnock) might have written:
>+---------------
>| AFAIK car stands for contents of address register and
>| cdr for contents of contents of data register.
>+---------------
>
>From the IBM 704 CPU instruction format:
>CAR == "Contents of Address [part of] Register".
>CDR == "Contents of Decrement [part of] Register".
>See <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cdr.html>.
Thanks for correcting me :)
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