Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork

[Andrew Suffield]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:38:00PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:53:43PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > > The question is whether the burden of learning something new is
> > > outweighed by the vast potential for abstraction offered by a very
> > > regular syntax
> > 
> > That's a myth. Transforming between natural and prefix notation is
> > trivial, loses no data, [...]
> 
> Right, but then there's the power of macros...
> 
> Guess why it's so difficult to have powerful macro systems for
> non-lisp languages.

Here's a good guess: it isn't. That's another myth.

I could add code to gcc's C parser to implement any macro system you
care to specify. It would take no more than a few days.

I'm not going to waste a few days on something so useless just to
prove a point. But I could.

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