From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,NICE_REPLY_A, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R.Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Java and Python have just discovered "record" type finally after 40 years. Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 12:39:02 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 10:39:02 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3b0c081db9119c4a13278f264eb1d604"; logging-data="2744888"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+SiwOgAN6AHndyIp1nDAWxld0XmH4nYs4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:XxS2N1QK1Q5bhbRpTFcjdyfq5qo= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:65231 List-Id: On 2023-05-14 08:46, J-P. Rosen wrote: > > Of course, in LISP there is only one structure, for data and programs alike: the > list! In the LISP I learned, there were only S-expressions (SEXes). A SEX is either an atom or a list of SEXes. Another way of putting it was there were atoms and lists of atoms or lists. Either way, there were also atoms. -- Jeff Carter "Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love." Annie Hall 45