On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Don Hopkins wrote:
(LISTREVERSE}
Chalk one up for DEC and
BASIC. What other programming languages support that
feature, huh?
You could probably do it in APL; you could do damned well
everything else after all...[*]
If you LISTREVERSE’ed a Lisp program, it would look like
PostScript with parens!
LISTREVERSE and
LISTNHREVERSE print the contents of the user's memory
area in order of descending line numbers. LISTREVERSE
precedes the output with a heading, LISTNHREVERSE
eliminates the heading.
Why on earth would you want to?
I have been wondering about that for years.
Here’s the manual! LISTREVERSE is documented on page 9-3.
Maybe if I printed out the "READERS COMMENTS" form at the back
of the manual, wrote my question in big upper case block
letters, then ticked the "If you require a written reply, please
check here” checkbox, then “Fold Here” and “Do Not Tear - Fold
Here and Staple” as instructed, I could mail in the free first
class pre-addressed, business reply mail, no postage stamp
necessary if mailed inside the United States envelope, and
they’d write me back a nice letter telling me what the fuck they
were thinking.
-Don