From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: is Lisp used in text parsing and processing tasks? Date: 14 Nov 2002 22:33:26 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3246302006301295@naggum.no> References: <994828d9.0211121253.54b3a821@posting.google.com> <86ptt9d552.fsf@rowlf.interhack.net> <3DD29578.6040305@nyc.rr.com> <7h3of8tz43w.fsf@pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk> <3246211108798360@naggum.no> <877kfhkn7d.fsf@noetbook.telent.net> <87of8sc5ao.fsf@pokey.henrik-motakef.de> <3246295285260587@naggum.no> <3DD41875.61C4E17@kolumbus.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1037313206 24804 129.240.65.5 (14 Nov 2002 22:33:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Nov 2002 22:33:26 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:46682 * Henrik Motakef | As opposed to conventions leading to clear names like cddddr, psetf, | ldp, fboundp, or rplacd? * Erik Naggum | All crystal clear to me, except for `ldp´. * Martti Halminen | The original poster possibly meant ldb, which I believe was directly | borrowed from PDP-10 assembler. Yes, `dpb´ and `ldb´ are PDP-10 instructions, all right. I wish more low-level instructions like this were available to Common Lisp programmers. E.g., byte-swapping instructions and rotates. However, you seem to have missed the potential for a humorous bent on this. Complaining about cryptic names is one thing, but getting them wrong when you do is inherently funny, at least in my book. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.