Re: why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp?

[Random832]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>
> Because of the name! Nothing else.
>
> I've never seen "vector" in programming having this
> meaning. In OpenGL (GLSL) there were (is) a vector
> type but I thought of that as dealing with
> math/graphical vectors, not to store arbitrary data:

C++ is another example of a language which has a "vector" type for
the purpose of storing arbitrary data. So does Java, though its use
is discouraged (for technical reasons relating to threading
synchronization overhead) in favor of ArrayList.