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Re:The German School of Lisp ("Fluchtpunkt Lisps") by danssig on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @11:13AM (#2510242)
Of course it's possible. The question is; how much work is it going to be? Will I have to use my turing complete language to implement Lisp to do it? In that case I would accept "impossible" as shorthand.
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Re:The German School of Lisp ("Fluchtpunkt Lisps") by exit on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @11:28AM (#2510309)
sure, i would have understood "impossible" as shorthand if it hadn't immediately followed "quite difficult".

"quite difficult or simply impossible to express"

i thought i was about to learn something interesting about the reducibility of languages.

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