Please vote once and for good: range operations

[Robert Fraser]

dsimcha wrote:
> Lisp, Scheme:  Car has absolutely no intuitive connection with the first part of
> anything.  This terminology was probably invented by some 60's programmer who was
> seriously stoned.

Only sort of... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_and_cdr

> Java:  Worse yet than array indexing, it looks like a lame substitute for an array
> index because Java's too stupid to support operator overloading.

Java's Deque class uses first() and last(). A Java iterator uses next(). 
So there's a bit of terminology.