[racket] Rosetta Code
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