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Re:The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005) by kazinator on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @02:39PM (#16010482)
> would you complain

I'm not complaining that programming languages use words based on English; my point is about English speakers having bikeshedding quibbles about those words that don't mean anything to non-English-speakers.

Suppose some Italian, due to some Italian reasons, doesn't like something about the music term dal segno or any other term. Why would I care, know what I mean.

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Re:The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005) by Turing_Machine on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @03:14PM (#16010700)
Hmm... if you didn't care, why would you be reading the Italian quibble on a history site written in Italian?

I mean, this was quite clearly a page about the history of the terms, right?

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Re:The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005) by macintux on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @10:02PM (#16012537)
You're turning a note about a happy coincidence into something very personal. Why?
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