Re:Why Lisp?
by mbrock on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:09PM
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That might be pseudo-code, but Dylan has a similar syntax, like Lisp without the explicit S-expressions.
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It seemed a little unfair to be talking about such beautiful and extensible syntax without including the parentheses. But I am unfamiliar with Dylan.
Well, typing parens in a HTML textbox can be pretty tedious, so I understand the desire for pseudocode.
Dylan has an interesting hygienic macro system that's similar to Scheme's. I don't think Dylan allows for arbitrary code-generating macro procedures, but it's possible in principle; see [1].