You're right, when I revisit this thought, there is nothing unfortunate about it. I've re-read https://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/revision-history.html http

You're right, when I revisit this thought, there is nothing unfortunate about it. I've re-read https://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/revision-history.html https://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/revision-history.html and can say that my initial reaction was just fomo'ing over my lack of early exposure to Lisp. It seems that what ESR omitted from his Jargon File was mainly stuff that made sense if you were logged into a specific set of PDP-10 machines at MIT.