Re:Why Lisp?
by mbrock on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:51PM
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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].
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].
[1]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/Projects/dexprs.pdf