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To: info-hol@leopard.cs.byu.edu, slind@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Subject: Re: Where do type constructors come from?

Constructors and selectors go together, of course, and the earliest example
that I'm aware of where such a setup is used in a programming language
is Lisp --- cons, car, and cdr.

For further information, you might try the SHOT (Society for the History Of
Technology) History of Computing mailing list.  Here's my alias for that:

  alias shothc shothc-l@sivm.bitnet

If you want to get yourself added to the list, send mail to Paul Ceruzzi
at the Smithsonian.  Here's my alias for him:

  alias ceruzzi nasem001@sivm.bitnet

Regards,

Garrel