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Re:Languages Which Almost Became CSS by lisivka on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:26PM (#11996745)
Metaprogramming scales very well. Every high-level program + compiler is metaprogram for assembler code.
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Re:Languages Which Almost Became CSS by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @10:22AM (#12001781)
That has a much higher barrier of entry, though. If I work on a project written in Blub, I won't be able to do any metaprogramming unless I can get everyone else to adopt my Blub++ compiler. If the software is written in Lisp, all I have to do is get it through a code review.

In effect, it's not really scaling; it's being limited to the small portion of developers who work on compilers.

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