Re:Why don't we listen to Occam's Razor when it comes to pro...
by davelnewton on Friday December 11, 2015 @01:54PM
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* IMO macros are occasionally useful, but YMMV.
* "Hardcoded features" like?
I'm all for purity, but so far, I haven't seen anything IRL that backs up your claims/arguments.
R5RS, the simplest used spec of Scheme, takes dozens of page to merely describe the language. The λ-calculus can be described and implemented in a paragraph. That makes it much easier to create new backends, for example.