[Gllug] re: OSS CMSs

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Thu Apr 28 21:49:01 UTC 2005


On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, David Damerell yowled:
>                        The extra vocabulary in a real language
> expresses subtle differences of meaning; but a programming language is
> dealing with a definite set of fundamental operations; the redundancy
> being discussed is extra vocabulary that really does mean exactly the
> same thing as existing vocabulary.

So you're not in favour of Lisp macros, then?

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This is like system("/usr/funky/bin/perl -e 'exec sleep 1'");
   --- Peter da Silva
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