[Haskell-cafe] Doing some things right

[Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva]

Hallo,

Andrew Coppin escreveu:
> Brian Sniffen wrote:
>> On Dec 28, 2007 6:05 AM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> 
>> wrote:
>>  
>>> [I actually heard a number of people tell me that learning LISP would
>>> change my life forever because LISP has something called "macros". I
>>> tried to learn it, and disliked it greatly. It's too messy. And what 
>>> the
>>> heck is "cdr" ment to mean anyway? To me, LISP doesn't even seem all
>>> that different from normal languages (modulo weird syntax). Now
>>> Haskell... that's FUN!]
>>>     
>>
>> Contents of Data Register.
>>   
>
> Right. I've heard the story about why it came to be called that, but 
> seriously... I can never remember whether I want cdr or car. It's a 
> silly choice of name. [Sure, you can rename it. And then nobody but 
> you will understand it.]

     In Common Lisp, standardised in 1984, there are the equivalent 
functions FIRST and REST, which everyone know what they mean.

Cheers,
-alex