if you ever feel like a bad coder dont forget that the software engineers behind the bourne shell needed a way to end their `case` statement and one of them said "what about `esac`" and another said "wtf is esac" and the first one said "case spelled backwards" and they shipped it
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Replying to @ra
Still more intuitive than the head and tail of a list in Lisp being called car (contents of the address region of the register number) and cdr (contents of the decrement region of the register number)
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Replying to @verticalblank
yeah, i could never bring myself to use a lisp that pulled that traditionalist shit, god bless clojure
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Replying to @ra
the way my sysarch prof in undergrad explained it: “there are half a dozen better names mccarthy and russell could have used, some of which are now in use today, but because this was computing in the 1950s, they went with confusing acronyms”
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