On 2023-10-30, at 08:08, Drew Adams <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:

> Googling tells me this:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4982732/what-word-is-abbreviated-by-n-in-names-of-destructive-lisp-functions
>
> which tells me this:
>
> https://gigamonkeys.com/book/they-called-it-lisp-for-a-reason-list-processing.html#destructive-operations

Thanks!  I tried to find this on the Internet, too, but I was apparently
too stupid to formulate a correct query in the search engine...

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl

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