From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 103d24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid103d24,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-09 23:00:42 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!chnws02.mediaone.net!chnws06.ne.mediaone.net!24.128.8.70!typhoon.ne.mediaone.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Raffael Cavallaro Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Beginner's Language? References: <9cukad$nn68@news-dxb> <9d5u1p$goiql$1@ID-63952.news.dfncis.de> <3AF67F9D.72B90142@andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk> <9db5kg$gk5c4$1@ID-63952.news.dfncis.de> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 05:45:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.22.225 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 989473517 24.147.22.225 (Thu, 10 May 2001 01:45:17 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 01:45:17 EDT Organization: Road Runner Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7429 comp.lang.lisp:9898 comp.lang.smalltalk:9662 comp.lang.functional:5603 comp.lang.scheme:3753 Date: 2001-05-10T05:45:17+00:00 List-Id: In article <9db5kg$gk5c4$1@ID-63952.news.dfncis.de>, "Biep @ http://www.biep.org/" wrote: >Oh, and I guess some people might be willing to argue that Scheme is the >*only* programming language with real macros :-) Yeah - it even has 4 different kinds depending on what implementation you're using - neat! ;^) In a more serious vein, Dylan has "real" macros too, but then Dylan is arguably Scheme on OO steroids. Raf -- Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D. raffael@mediaone.net