By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: February 5, 2017
I’ve been interested in the Lisp programming language since I first learned about it, but in the books I’ve read about it, no author has explained the background of terms like cons, car, cdr, and S-expressions. Tonight I found this “History of Lisp” document, which explains the meaning of some of those names.
(If you’re really interested in those terms, this Wikipedia page describes them even more.)