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Page for discussion about the [[LISP]] page.
 
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"The language is still in use in 2001 and is therefore the oldest programming language still currently in use (as of writing in 2001)."
 
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''CAR (Contents of
 
Address Register) and CDR (Contents of Address Register) are the operations for returning the head and tail of a list respectively. ''
 
 
 
Do CAR and CDR really stand for the same thing? (I don't know much about list, having read something about it in a Sci. Am. article about it over a decade ago, and not much since) --[[JoeAnderson | dja]]
 
 
 
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No, CDR stands for Contents of Data Register. Typo/thinko. Fixed. Ta. --[[drj]]
 
 
 
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Function CAR in LISP program returns the first element in a list.
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