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There was a previous thread about egison[0]. Several of us were curious as to why you created an entirely new language. Can't the kind of pattern matching egisi

There was a previous thread about egison[0]. Several of us were curious as to why you created an entirely new language. Can't the kind of pattern matching egision provides be implemented in some other Lisp through macros? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924168

egi 12y ago
At first, I tried to extend the existing language. However, it was difficult because implementation of the Egison pattern-matching has big influence for whole design of a programming language. I wrote answers for this question and other frequently asked questions on our website. Please check it too. http://www.egison.org/faq.html#why-new-language http://www.egison.org/faq.html#why-new-language