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angrycoder on Nov 9, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lisp has too many parentheses...

The bigger problem is that CAR and CDR actually mean something without the silly anatomy analogies.

limmeau on Nov 9, 2010 | [–]

Actually, I like "anterior" and "dorsal" better than assembly instructions from the 1950s.

leppie on Nov 9, 2010 | [–]

The first thing I noticed too, then I stopped reading :(

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