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jayessay wrote:
> Also no "funny weird extra little language" (aka templates)
 > needed or wanted either.

How odd. If I may quote from Abelson & Sussman, found here on the web,
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-25.html#%_chap_4>,

     "Metalinguistic abstraction -- establishing new languages -- plays
      an important role in all branches of engineering design. It is
      particularly important to computer programming, because in
      programming not only can we formulate new languages but we can also
      implement these languages by constructing evaluators ...

      We come to see ourselves as designers of languages, rather than only
      users of languages designed by others."

So again, I may believe some of the most respected names in the Lisp
pantheon, or I can believe you. Gee, let me think.