From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Are macros really a neccessity, or a coverup of language deficiencies? Date: 2000/04/29 Message-ID: <3166034318949868@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 617305324 References: <390371F0.36455F4E@makif.omer.k12.il><3165647335532305@naggum.no><3907660B.CCA3ECD2@yahoo.com><1e9pulo.1ueryh2128131kN%bparsia@email.unc.edu><3907FD4A.D138F88D@yahoo.com><1e9rfzf.1oyq1sjqgo9u3N%bparsia@email.unc.edu><3909A082.3EF9D7C4@yahoo.com><3909F804.C49C543C@yahoo.com><8ed36j$7pi$1@joe.rice.edu><390AC985.96E8CE39@yahoo.com> <8efj1k$3nm$1@joe.rice.edu> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 957045690 22983 195.0.192.66 (29 Apr 2000 22:01:30 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Apr 2000 22:01:30 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "Marc Battyani" | In fact it's interresting that both Lisp and assembly languages are | the languages with the more powerful macro capabilities. especially those popular at the time people were expected to write real code in assembly. I only got really familiar with the PDP-10 and its MACRO-10 language among the great processors of our time, but, boy, what an incredibly powerful macro language! tell this to the kids these days, however, and they just won't believe you. #:Erik