Can a language have Lisp's powerful macros without the parentheses?

Re:Can a language have Lisp's powerful macros without the pa... by dfranke on Thursday April 05, 2007 @02:04PM (#9304)

I've never understood why this is such a popular question.

Remember this remark from The Matrix? "After a while you don't even see the code. All you see is blonde, redhead..." Well, after a while you don't even see the parens. All you see is closure, continuation...

Seriously, just start reading On Lisp and by the time you're half-way through it you'll be at this point.

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Re:Can a language have Lisp's powerful macros without the pa... by BrandonM on Thursday April 05, 2007 @10:58PM (#9495)

Oh, I totally get that. The "problem" is that of building languages on top of Lisp, which is really half of the point. The languages that can be trivially built on top of Lisp generally look like Lisp. I would like to be able to use a language with Lisp's capabilities to build a new language which looks completely different.

I'm not really asking for an answer here; this is really just a thought exercise on my part that I thought I'd share.

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