From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp? Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 15:48:42 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87mvvjeg29.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87eggvebfs.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87pp0eckss.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87a8rhcypj.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87fv19asrn.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87vba49vzs.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445197842 8427 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2015 19:50:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:50:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 18 21:50:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZntyK-0004DH-Ma for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:50:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35376 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZntyJ-0003h1-Qz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 15:50:23 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="5090"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+UtTgl/e21wz0ggU4AigUP" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y2NuZamWRix4X5pHjDzs/qAxgSs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215457 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107741 Archived-At: In article , Emanuel Berg wrote: > I thought the vectors of Lisp were for Linear algebra > and the special syntax stroke me as very uncalled for > and out of place, It's curious that you would think that a language primarily intended for programming an EDITOR would have a feature for linear algebra. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***