[racket] Rosetta Code

From: Hendrik Boom (hendrik at topoi.pooq.com)
Date: Fri Feb 22 17:33:10 EST 2013

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 04:20:10PM -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> Two side notes:
> 
> * The text on the rosetta page that explains why Racket is not Scheme
>   is text that I wrote at some point in the past.  IIRC, there was a
>   general agreement about it, but probably nobody did anything with
>   it, and I never got to change the pages.  So I think that you won't
>   have any problems following on that comment.
> 
> * Lisp was originally spelled "LISP", similarly to other languages.
>   But these days, if you write LISP instead of Lisp, you'd look like
>   someone who is disconnected from the modern (Lisp) world, where only
>   the latter is used...

THe change from LISP to Lisp probably coincides approximately to when 
people stopped saying (CADDR X) and starged saying (caddr x).

-- hendrik

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