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A comment on The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005).
That's the myth that Hickey loves to pass around, but is a totally baseless claim.
>This is why Clojure has first instead of car and rest instead of cdr.
Just as Common Lisp also has "first" and "rest" if one feels like using them instead of "car" and "cdr".
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That's the myth that Hickey loves to pass around, but is a totally baseless claim.
>This is why Clojure has first instead of car and rest instead of cdr.
Just as Common Lisp also has "first" and "rest" if one feels like using them instead of "car" and "cdr".