On 2020-12-18, Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: >> Implement car and cdr. > Why car and cdr? > > Well obviously car is content of the address register and cdr is content of > data register. > Apparently an artefact of a early implementation of lisp.
While car and cdr are lisp operators, the "content of address register" and "content of data register" etymology is apparently apocryphal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_and_CDR#Etymology -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
