Hi Yiorgos,

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 03:46:34PM +0200, Yiorgos [George] Adamopoulos wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 3:37 PM Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Kashyap,
> >
> > > Is LISP indeed List Integer and Symbol Processing? According to a lot of
> > > places on the web it seems to be just List Processing.
> >
> > Interesting! I never heard that. I always heard it means just "List 
> > Processing".
> > Integers are probably not an outstanding feature, every language has it.
> >
> 
> I think the question stems from what is written in the Picolisp FAQ:
> 
> "Simplicity
> 
> PicoLisp is easy to understand and adapt. There is no compiler
> enforcing special rules, and the interpreter is simple and
> straightforward. There are only three data types: Numbers, symbols and
> lists ("LISP" means "List-, Integer- and Symbol Processing" after all

Oohh, indeed! Forgot about that. ;)

☺/ A!ex

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