Hygienic macros (was: do...until wisdom needed...)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <lcsnj6hz0a.fsf at gaffa.mit.edu>,
Douglas Alan  <nessus at mit.edu> wrote:
>whisper at oz.net (Dave LeBlanc) writes:
>
>> FWIW, Tcl is actually based on Lisp - i'm told quite closely once you
>> get past the syntactical sugar.
>
>I don't know what you mean by "based on".  They are very dissimilar.
>
>|>oug

Inner-circle Tcl-ers widely believe Tcl and Lisp
"feel the same":
<URL: http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1318.html >
<URL: http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/985.html >

'Course, there's also a long tradition of devoted
Lispers deprecating Tcl, sometimes quite passionately.
I'll spare you references to those instances.
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