> Sorry to be pedantic, but we don't call it LISP anymore. It was only > ever called LISP because there weren't any lowercase characters on > terminals when it was invented! It's not a proper acronym, so LISP > is just wrong. Lisp is the way to name it.
Isn't it an acronym for List Processor (or something along those lines), or is that some after-the-fact thing (or does that not count as an acronym since it doesn't match a word to each letter)? > Anyway, it's not just from the Lisp community. It's more generally > from the functional programming community, and even from people in > the Perl community like Mark Jason Dominus (who probably truly > belongs in all three communities). But there's still value in > learning about patterns, because they are often elegant solutions to > difficult design problems. Btw, Perl is an acronym (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language), so you should put PERL, not Perl :) Greg /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
