Re: kern/13644

[Matthew Dillon]

:>     Ah, indeed!  nul/NUL == ascii.  'nil' should removed from our vocabulary.
:> 
:
:       NIL or nil, is the nil pointer from lisp.  lisp is often the
:first time many people start to understans that data can drive
:programs.  this is a good thing.
:
:jmb

    I don't know anybody under the age of 30 who knows lisp.  And, frankly,
    since both the system and virtually all of its support programs are written
    in C, C terminology is going to be considerably more effective then lisp
    or pascal terminology.

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
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