Re: [dev] Interesting post about X11

From: Robert Ransom <rransom.8774_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:10:27 -0700

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:08:48 +0200
pmarin <pacogeek_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> *should be used* and *can be used* have different meaning in my poor English.
> Can you rationalize why Scheme *should be used *?

Scheme *should* be used for everything because at least one good macro
system has been designed for it. Lisp macros can do arbitrary
computation at compile-time, and the Scheme macro system required by
R6RS provides all the power of Lisp macros *and* supports a
pattern-matching macro specification syntax for simple syntactic sugar.

Robert Ransom

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