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dented42yesterday at 9:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

I guess when you’ve been calling it that before everyone else you’re allowed. Sort of how Common Lisp calls threads ‘processes’.


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Jtsummersyesterday at 11:15 PM

> Sort of how Common Lisp calls threads ‘processes’.

Can you point to any documentation on that? It's not in the hyperspec and it doesn't seem to be in Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition (using the index)

pjmlpyesterday at 10:03 PM

As does Smalltalk and Erlang, and to make things more interesting, all three mean something not exactly the same.