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I hate that. Seeing as I'm a Schemer, I also hate the other classics: It's not really a lisp because false and nil aren't the same, It's not really a lisp becau
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I hate that. Seeing as I'm a Schemer, I also hate the other classics: It's not really a lisp because false and nil aren't the same, It's not really a lisp because it doesn't have real* macros, and It's not a lisp for various reasons which amount to: it's not CL or any of its predecessors*.
My usual responses to each of these, respectively, are: come off it, even McCarthy says that was totally by chance, and may not have been the best idea; pretty much every implementation has really macros, and even the original lisp didn't have real macros; and finally, come on, Rainer, we've had this discussion like three times already.