Software Needs Philosophers

[Stormcoder]

He means Lisp macros. Lisp macros are nothing like the crippled C++
macros that people tend to think of.

Roedy Green wrote:
> On 21 May 2006 02:15:31 -0700, "Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> wrote,
> quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>
> Java has lots of macro languages, including C++'s preprocessor. What
> it does not have is a sanctioned one.  It has instead on-the-fly code
> generation. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/onthefly.html
>
>
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