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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list] |
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Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:17:28 +0100 |
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tomas wrote:
>> While this would be feasible for these two functions, it
>> wouldn't work for "caddr" and ilk :-)
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> But, but... imagine car-rac-rac-rac (yes, with hyphens!).
> The sound!
What does that mean?
>> I faintly remember discussions back in the early seventies
>> to replace "car" and "cdr" (which originally stood for
>> "Contents of Address Regis- ter" and "Contents of Decrement
>> Register", respectively, and referred to machine
>> instructions on some then modern PDP hardware which were
>> used to access the two pointers of a cons)
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> IBM 704, but we disgress badly.
IBM 704 1954 first mass-produced computer for floating-point arithmetic
> Pity. Now where are the mice? ;-)
???
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- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, (continued)
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, tomas, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Marcin Borkowski, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, tomas, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Dr Rainer Woitok, 2022/11/29
- Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list], tomas, 2022/11/29
- Re: Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list],
Emanuel Berg <=
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/28
Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Dr Rainer Woitok, 2022/11/29
Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/11/30