Subject: Re: (endp lst) or (null lst) From: Joe Marshall Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Oleg writes: > Tim Bradshaw wrote: > > > * Kenny Tilton wrote: > > > >> I do not like feel-good aliases for car, cdr, null, etc. I think a > >> Lisp progreammer needs to be fluent in thinking about cons cells, and > >> syntactic sugar like first, rest, and (something I never heard of in > >> six years of Lisping) endp. > > > > > > I do not like feel-good languages like assembler, fortran, C etc. I > > think a progreammer needs to be fluent in thinking about bits and > > toggling in hex, and syntactic sugar like, assembler, fortran, and > > (something I never heard of in six years of toggling in hex) lisp. > > > > I do not like the feel-good aliases that a hex editor provides. I think a > real programmer needs to be fluent in thinking about bits and should write > his code as ones and zeros. I do not like the feel-good abstraction that a written representation of bits provides. I think a real programmer needs to be fluent in thinking about electric fields, current flows, and Maxwell's equations.