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For instance, at the time the only looping construct was &lsquo;while&rsquo;, which was extremely simple. There was no way to break out of the &lsquo;while&rsquo; statement, you just had to do a catch and a throw, or test a variable that ran the loop. That shows how far I was pushing to keep things small. We didn't have &lsquo;caar&rsquo; and &lsquo;cadr&rsquo; and so on; &ldquo;squeeze out everything possible&rdquo; was the spirit of GNU Emacs, the spirit of Emacs Lisp, from the beginning.