Hey,
I'm trying to convince ESR to use Lisp instead of LISP in the hacker howto. However, I can't find any citation to why Lisp refers to modern dialects, and LISP to old ones.
Any help?
Malaclypse wrote:Hey,
I'm trying to convince ESR to use Lisp instead of LISP in the hacker howto. However, I can't find any citation to why Lisp refers to modern dialects, and LISP to old ones.
dmitry_vk wrote:I've read explanations that titles like LISP, FORTRAN etc come from archaic era when you could only punch capital letter on punch cards.
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