Be gentle with me....

Samuel A. Falvo II kc5tja at garnet.armored.net
Tue Dec 7 17:56:06 EST 1999


In article <slrn84r667.1bb.neelk at brick.cswv.com>, Neel Krishnaswami wrote:
>parenthesized s-exps is why Lisp has a macro system that does not 
>suck -- Lisp macros are essentially transformations of the abstract 
>syntax. And that macro system is why even novel ideas can always be
>expressed cleanly in Lisp.

Forth has much the same capabilities without the use of parentheses.  In
fact, it uses zero punctuation at all.  :-)

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Samuel A. Falvo II
Oceanside, CA



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