Re:Why Lisp?
by badpenny on Friday May 08, 2015 @05:53AM
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A pile of shit emerging whenever programmers are lazy and try to cut corners or when they try to do things they don't fully understand is not unique to macro writing.
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Right, the point i was making is that not everyone is a 'rockstar' and macros just give you quite a bit more rope to hang yourself with. Awful java/python/whatever is obvious because you can't redefine control flow so easily. With macros you can have something as fundamental as loops be broken.
Re:Why Lisp?
by lazzlazzlazz on Friday May 08, 2015 @06:11AM
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I think the point above is that this problem could be exacerbated by macro writing.