> Although the exact origins of the names for car and cdr are lost in the mists of time This is absolutely wrong. If you read AI memo 1 you will find a bunch o

> Although the exact origins of the names for car and cdr are lost in the mists of time This is absolutely wrong. If you read AI memo 1 you will find a bunch of functions: cwr, cpr, csr, cir, cdr, ctr, car, cbr, csgr. These return various parts of an IBM 704 word (also called a register) or will set it when assigned to. As we know only car and cdr survived, but it's explained very clearly how they wanted to build list structures.