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You might be interested in what John Wiegley had to say on the subject (in particular, Haskell has no macros; is this bad?) a couple of months ago: http://www.
by ggchappell 17y ago
You might be interested in what John Wiegley had to say on the subject (in particular, Haskell has no macros; is this bad?) a couple of months ago:
http://www.newartisans.com/2009/03/hello-haskell-goodbye-lisp.html http://www.newartisans.com/2009/03/hello-haskell-goodbye-lis...
The comments below the article also have some interesting and relevant things to say.
- lispm 17y agoFor somebody with 15 years of Lisp experience he sure managed to mention the most trivial use of macros.
- mahmud 17y agoPublic language changes are usually just trolling for the love of a community; it's like those public "converters" who go from one mainstream, often Abrahamic, religion to another. The rest of us just rewrite the critical stuff in whatever that's the most efficient, and the non-critical stuff in whatever that's easiest. Oh screw this! Guys, I just converted from Common Lisp to CSS! The cascade is like OOP inheritance, without the annoying CLOS multiple-inheritance and over-configurable multiple dispatch. It has keyword methods, :hover, :active, etc, I can even implement list processing with getElementById! Take that, you Lisp weenies!
- ggchappell 17y agoWell, look at the comments. Things get a little deeper there.