Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

[Kevin D. Clark]

Derek Martin writes:

> No but you have equally obscure and meaningless keywords like car, cdr,
> and lambda etc.

CAR and CDR refer to a register in the IBM 704.

Lambda refers to the lambda calculus.

Obscure?  Maybe, although my (excellent) LISP teacher told me what CAR
and CDR referred to on nearly the first day I was learning LISP.
(he didn't get to "lambda" until quite a bit later...)

I'm not sorry that my undergraduate career included quite a bit of
LISP.  I appreciate the perspective I've gained, and for certain
problems I still gravitate towards LISP for solving them.

--kevin

PS  On a practical note, knowing LISP is certainly helpful when
    hacking Emacs LISP extentions.  (-:


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