[Gllug] re: OSS CMSs

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 28 Apr 2005, Nix wrote:
>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?

Certainly it's possible to use them in a way that diminishes
readability, which is all I'm saying here.

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