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		kazinator on Dec 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (2005) > would you complain I'm not complaining that programming languages use words based on English; my point is about English speakers having bikeshedding quibbles about those words that don't mean anything to non-English-speakers. Suppose some Italian, due to some Italian reasons, doesn't like something about the music term dal segno or any other term. Why would I care, know what I mean.

Turing_Machine on Dec 26, 2017 [–]

Hmm... if you didn't care, why would you be reading the Italian quibble on a history site written in Italian?

I mean, this was quite clearly a page about the history of the terms, right?

macintux on Dec 27, 2017 | [–]

You're turning a note about a happy coincidence into something very personal. Why?

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