[1-6] What does CLOS, PCL, X3J13, CAR, CDR, ... mean?
Glossary of acronyms:
CAR Originally meant "Contents of Address portion of Register",
which is what CAR actually did on the IBM 704.
CDR Originally meant "Contents of Decrement portion of
Register", which is what CDR actually did
on the IBM 704. Pronounced "Cudder" /kUdd@r/ (as in "a cow
chews its cdr"). The first syllable is pronounced
like "could".
LISP Originally from "LISt Processing"
GUI Graphical User Interface
CLOS Common Lisp Object System. The object oriented
programming standard for Common Lisp. Based on
Symbolics FLAVORS and Xerox LOOPS, among others.
Pronounced either as "See-Loss" or "Closs". See also PCL.
PCL Portable Common Loops. A portable CLOS implementation.
Available by anonymous ftp from parcftp.xerox.com:pcl/.
LOOPS Lisp Object Oriented Programming System. A predecessor
to CLOS on Xerox Lisp machines.
X3J13 Subcommittee of the ANSI committee X3 which is
working on the ANSI Standardization of Common Lisp.
ANSI American National Standards Institute
dpANS draft proposed American National Standard (what an ANS
is called while it's in the public review stage of
standardization).
CL Common Lisp
SC22/WG16 The full name is ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 16. It stands
for International Organization for Standardization/
International Electrotechnical Commission, Joint
Technical Committee 1 Subcommittee 22 (full name
"Information Technology -- Programming Languages
and their Environments"), Working Group 16. This
long-winded name is the ISO working group working
on an international Lisp standard, (i.e., the ISO
analogue to X3J13).
CLtL1 First edition of Guy Steele's book,
"Common Lisp the Language".
CLtL2 Second edition of Guy Steele's book,
"Common Lisp the Language".
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