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Re: Lisp anime video


From: Wayne Harris
Subject: Re: Lisp anime video
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 07:49:45 -0300

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> tomas wrote:
>>
>>>> Is there really a "cudder"?
>>>
>>> That's a cuter name for `cdr'
>>
>> Let me guess, a cuter name for `cddr' is cuddder?
>
> I think the recorded SICP lectures from 1986 mention how they used to
> pronounce c[ad]*r functions.

I don't think they gave the pronunciation of cddr as an example.  I
suppose that should be something like ``cududder''.  The example that
Sussman enjoyed to give was caddr.  I still remember the smirk ---
``cadader''.




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