Lisp may stand for List Processing, but it's really tree processing
(http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html)
Something tells me that a language called "Treep" would get even less traction than a language called "Lisp".
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Time for a Short One
(http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html)
Something tells me that a language called "Treep" would get even less traction than a language called "Lisp".
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That's just because once you put lists inside your list, you've got a tree. You could also go the other way and say that Lisp is really about "cons cell processing"..
Indeed. Thanks for stopping by.
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