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		arethuza on Sept 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SICL – A fresh implementation of Common Lisp I'm pretty sure you can use first and rest in Common Lisp if you don't like car and cdr http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Common_Lisp/Basic_topics/Lists

Blackthorn on Sept 8, 2014 [–]

As usual, problems come when reading someone else's code, not writing your own.

aidenn0 on Sept 9, 2014 | [–]

If you make a dialect without car/cdr the first thing about 30% of lisp hackers will do is write a macro to generate definitions for all of these:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_...

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