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- From: brianw@iat.holonet.net (Brian Walsh)
- Subject: Re: LISP in system RPL
- Message-ID: <Bxrrwu.4KB@iat.holonet.net>
- Organization: HoloNet
- References: <STEVEV.92Nov14123612@miser.uoregon.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:12:28 GMT
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- The potentially controversial name LISP was given to my routine because
- the stack arguments required are a LISt and a Process, in that order.
- Actually now that I think of it, mapcar may be less misleading; however
- since in LISP you type (mapcar f l) and the syntax of my "routine" is
- l f "routine" (the reverse of mapcar), maybe an even more descriptive
- and more cryptic name is racpam (just kidding). I think the jury's
- still out on this one.
-
- -- Brian Walsh
- brianw@holonet.net
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