On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:47:46AM +0000, Aled Gest wrote:
> > C preprocessor is stupid. C macros are ugly and dangerous, except of
> > simplest cases.
>
> I totally agree that the C pre-processor sucks. It's ill thought out
> and needs replacing. However, going back to what you were saying about
> you being able to subdue Lisp's syntax with macros, any language that
> requires macros to hide its syntax is poorly designed. Macros are
> there to aid programming. You shouldn't need to create a new language
> out of macros to get the job done, otherwise you might as well just
> use another language in the first place.
In lisp, the macros are part of the language and don't hide anything.
The syntax itself is lisp, with all it's parentheses.
Received on Fri Nov 13 2009 - 09:43:45 UTC
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