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by tsm 4507 days ago
At least with CL there's a certain logic to it. getf => get form, setf => set form, setq => set quote, etcetera. All languages are guilty of this—I used to be bothered by Python's len() and Ruby's .uniq() and so on and so forth, but you get used to it after a while. Except for PHP. You never get used to PHP...