> Scheme has longer-function-names than Common Lisp Depends. Common Lisp has naming from several decades, as does Scheme. CAR is from Lisp 1 in 1960, when mem

> Scheme has longer-function-names than Common Lisp Depends. Common Lisp has naming from several decades, as does Scheme. CAR is from Lisp 1 in 1960, when memory (RAM, punched cards, punched tape, magnetic tape, drum, hard disk drives, ...) was tiny. UPDATE-INSTANCE-FOR-REDEFINED-CLASS is from CLOS (ca. 1987) This longer naming is not unusual in Common Lisp. > Also Scheme use a more functional style and skip the intermediate variables. Sometimes the name of the intermediate variables are like self documentation and make the code easier to read. Yes.