merits of Lisp vs Python

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <7xslfmju4g.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> writes:
>> FYI: Here's how Nemerle does macros: http://nemerle.org/Macros
>> 
>> I guess you can't really transform Nemerle into a completely different
>> language, but it is at least interesting to see such a feature in language
>> with a more complex syntax than Lisp.
> 
> Nobody seems to concerned that Haskell lacks macros.  What's up with that?

Hm, right from the Nemerle macro page linked above:

  We are following them in the direction of much more powerful, and at the
  same time more secure (type-safe) solutions like Haskell Template
  Meta-programming.

So there seems to be something macro-like for Haskell.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch