Invisible wrote:
>> Perhaps you have not been subjected to LISP Gail.  (Apologies in 
>> advance if you have).
>>
>> Two of the fundamental operations are taking the head item of a list 
>> using CAR and taking the remainder of the list using CDR.
> 
> In Haskell, we just call these "head" and "tail"... ;-)
> 
Well that's just crazy :)

Actually some LISP implementations have 'first' and 'rest' for the same 
reason - to make it easy for chardonnay quaffing pinko tree-hugging 
clueless newbs who wouldn't recognise an assembly mnemonic without it 
being colour syntax highlighted in 24-point consolas font and given 
bubble help.

One nice thing in LISP is that there are forms like caadr as shorthand 
for (car (car (cdr ...))).

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