Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)

Re:Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005) by berntb on Sunday July 15, 2012 @07:59AM (#4246782)

(I shouldn't comment on karma 18 accounts, I'm probably being trolled, but a couple of links should be ok...)

See the Synopsises here:

http://search.cpan.org/~flora/MooseX-Declare-0.35/lib/MooseX...

http://search.cpan.org/~ether/MooseX-Method-Signatures-0.43/...

(I assume you'll insist that any link I give is ugly. :-) But note that the declarations and parameter specifications are at least as elegant as any other major scripting language I'm aware of.)

Edit: And for the record, I love Perl and Lisp. :-)

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Re:Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005) by JustinJ70s on Sunday July 15, 2012 @04:29PM (#4247989)

Not trolled, probably karma 18 because I've posted only a few times in the years since creating an account. I'm really not intrested in karma/scoring games on sites like HN.

Moose looks really nice and I've nothing against Perl - my language of choice is Scala. I just thought it was a daft thing for Larry to say considering the issues of readability that have been levelled at Perl.

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Re:Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005) by mst on Sunday July 15, 2012 @08:08PM (#4248678)

If you consider this, what you've just said is "I think it's daft for Larry not to like the way lisp looks considering some people don't like the way perl looks."

I don't like the way python looks. Does that mean it would be daft for Guido to ever criticise another language's aesthetics? :)

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