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You spend a lot of time talking about semantics and levels of abstraction, but there's no mention at all of syntax. I find it difficult to consider something a
by kscaldef 17y ago
You spend a lot of time talking about semantics and levels of abstraction, but there's no mention at all of syntax. I find it difficult to consider something a "language" when the syntactic rules are completely decoupled from the abstractions that it describes.
- raganwald 17y agoHello again! Thanks for anticipating the next post that is currently in draft form. I am extremely interested in what I call "meta-syntactic programming" and everybody else calls "Macros circa 1969." http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails#readme http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails#readme