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From: "Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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jayessay wrote:

[ ... ]

> > I very specifcally said they were not in a preprocessor, and merely
> > that they provide capabilities similar to those available in the
> > preprocessor in C++.
>
> And this is just _completely_ untrue.  Not even close.

I see. So what is it that (you incorrectly believe) the C preprocessor
can do that a Lisp macro can't do?

> Lisp coming into the conversation here is just a _bad_ thing to do.
> Not because you are wrong about "preprocessors" being unusual (you're
> right - they aren't.), but because you "equate" (in any sense) Lisp
> macros as being a "preprocessor".

I never made such an "equation" -- if you saw such a thing in what I
said, it's entirely your own delusion.

[ ... ]

> > As usual, I disagree -- and I also use Lisp part of the time, and
> > have not only used Smalltalk, but written a fairly substantial part
> > of a Smalltalk implementation.
>
> Then you don't really understand the fundamental aspect of Lisp.

I wish I was still sufficiently young and inexperienced to draw such
solid conclusions based on such a complete lack of evidence or
knowledge.

--
    Later,
    Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.