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Yet the definition of Lisp is as elegant as it gets. And it potentially has the best of everything, thanks to real macros.
by codr4life 10y ago
Yet the definition of Lisp is as elegant as it gets. And it potentially has the best of everything, thanks to real macros.
- eudox 10y agoNo, it isn't. There's a difference between McCarthy's "Maxwell's equations of software" and the full-blown Common Lisp standard, which was designed by and aimed at industry.
- codr4life 10y agoIt's still there, it's perfectly possible to not use all the stuff they piled on top. At least it's useful, semi coherent stuff; as opposed to C++.