> What i dont understand is why does everything have to be so brief Computers used to have very little memory and processing power, and screens had very low pi

> What i dont understand is why does everything have to be so brief Computers used to have very little memory and processing power, and screens had very low pixel density so line width was not that big. Then you have to deal with the baggage 50 years later. Modern Lisps have the luxury so they use head/tail or first/rest.