Hygienic macros (was: do...until wisdom needed...)
Kris J. Zaragoza
kzaragoza at mediaone.net
Mon Apr 30 15:34:49 EDT 2001
On 18 Apr 2001 15:59:42 -0400, Douglas Alan <nessus at mit.edu> wrote:
>I don't need a reference because I'm one of those (ex-) Lispers. I
>love Lisp and I hate Tcl with a passion. Python is much, much closer
>to Lisp than Tcl is. If you were to change the syntax of Python to be
>Lisp-like, you might even count it as a dialect of Lisp. There's no
>amount of syntactic sugar that could do that to Tcl.
>
>|>oug
Agreed. After extolling the virtues of Python to a a friend of mine,
he finally tried it. His response: "Now I know why you like Python so
much. It's Lisp without the parentheses!"
-Kris
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Kris J. Zaragoza | "Unfortunately, most people can't out-think a
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