[lgarron]

I'm a fan first/rest because of Mathematica. It has four functions that all end in "st", which means I can always recall the one I need:

First, Rest, Most, Last

(Results on Range[4], respectively: 1, {2, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3}, 4.)

[draegtun]

Rebol comes with first & last but not the others.

  >> a: [1 2 3 4]
  == [1 2 3 4]

  >> first a
  == 1

  >> last a
  == 4

This is how you could add rest & most:

  >> rest: func [s] [next s] 
  >> most: func [s] [copy/part s back tail s]

  >> rest a
  == [2 3 4]

  >> most a                                  
  == [1 2 3]

Rebol unifies all this under what it calls a series - http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-6.html

[lcedp]

In Clojure it's almost the same: first, rest, butlast, last