Re: [Haskell-cafe] Doing some things right

Hallo, Andrew Coppin escreveu:

Brian Sniffen wrote:

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On Dec 28, 2007 6:05 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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[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!]

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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