On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 04:20:10PM -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Two side notes: > > * The text on the rosetta page that explains why Racket is not Scheme > is text that I wrote at some point in the past. IIRC, there was a > general agreement about it, but probably nobody did anything with > it, and I never got to change the pages. So I think that you won't > have any problems following on that comment. > > * Lisp was originally spelled "LISP", similarly to other languages. > But these days, if you write LISP instead of Lisp, you'd look like > someone who is disconnected from the modern (Lisp) world, where only > the latter is used...
THe change from LISP to Lisp probably coincides approximately to when people stopped saying (CADDR X) and starged saying (caddr x). -- hendrik ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
