On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> - What everyone calls head (of a list) emacs calls Car (Toyota?) > > Now you're inventing things.
No, but it's LISP rather than Emacs that calls it that. And it dates back to an assembly language opcode. Why that got perpetuated in a high level language, I don't know - it'd be like building a language today and using "interrupt" as the name of its call mechanism, because it's built on the Intel INT opcode. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
