From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Lisp is alive Date: 1996/09/24 Message-ID: <3052584787558974@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185096115 sender: erik@arcana.naggum.no references: <842908513snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> <323f7b48.3843721@news.primenet.com> <3052030527425472@naggum.no> organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313; http://www.naggum.no newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp [Juliusz Chroboczek] | The point is that you do not need to have Lisp syntax in order to have | macros, read and pprint. However, read and pprint are trivial to | implement with Lisp syntax, and might be a little more bothersome with | infix syntax. Not actually difficult, just unpleasant. Of course, some of us do remember when Dylan had both a prefix and an infix syntax and transformation between them was supposed to be straight-forward. And I do wonder what was actually gained by dropping the prefix syntax. #\Erik -- Those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reimplement it.