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".Go Back Up