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Re:Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005) by ScottBurson on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:02AM (#21811905)
If anyone's still reading, I can't resist adding that I was doing type checking by macro expansion — a technique that was the subject of a 2017 POPL paper [0] — in 1983.

[0] https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/stchang/pubs/ckg-popl2017.pdf

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Re:Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005) by zeveb on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:03AM (#21813483)
That's so cool! Yet another example of Lisp enabling what other languages get in the way of.
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