Re:The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005)
by kazinator on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:30AM
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Vi has "registers" and so do TeX and troff. I think once upon a time, it was more common to use the word for things beside CPU registers and I/O ports.
If a cons cell is a context with two registers (R) whose contents we can access (C), the only vestiges of that IBM machine are the A and D letters sandwiched in between to distinguish them.
Compared to how option letters change meaning between Unix commands, it's nothing. -h help? Nope, h)uman readable sizes.
^ to anchor regex at beginning; $ for end. Because on common keyboards, ^ is on the right, and $ on the left!
If a cons cell is a context with two registers (R) whose contents we can access (C), the only vestiges of that IBM machine are the A and D letters sandwiched in between to distinguish them.
Compared to how option letters change meaning between Unix commands, it's nothing. -h help? Nope, h)uman readable sizes.
^ to anchor regex at beginning; $ for end. Because on common keyboards, ^ is on the right, and $ on the left!