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Re:The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005) by kazinator on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @09:35PM (#16012445)
Why trigrams: (cl x) (cr x). cell left, cell right.

I don't think car and cdr are newbie hostile; they are rather troll-fertile.

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