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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:35PM (#12471176)
Huh. Meh, the lack of Macros aren't a problem. The problem is lack of arbitrary code transformation, which isn't as fixable.
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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by mroll on Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:39PM (#12471198)
There is arbitrary code transformation in tcl through subst or string map
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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:51PM (#12471233)
Yeah, because regex is so great at parsing code. It's not like that'll break in unexpected ways. And we all just love writing parsers in our macros.

Oh, wait.

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