From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: OT: What was the first programming language to use
Date: 18 Aug 2005 21:13:32 -0500
Date: 2005-08-18T21:13:32-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xFcriaae8Qic@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3y86yak0v.fsf@rr.trudgett
In article <m3y86yak0v.fsf@rr.trudgett>, David Trudgett <wpower@zeta.org.au.nospamplease> writes:
> Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
>> An important difference between Ada's generics and most macro systems
>
> A small quibble, perhaps: I don't think one can use the phrase "most
> macro systems" for the simple reason that (as far as I'm aware) no
> language family besides the Lisp one has a macro system (in the sense
> that Lisp has it -- they may well use the same word, but C language
> "macros", for instance, are a completely different beast).
Bliss macros are also entirely different from C macros.
A difference between Lisp and C does not automatically make Lisp
the only language with the right to use the word "system".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-19 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-18 9:18 OT: What was the first programming language to use 'generics'? Martin Dowie
2005-08-18 11:29 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-08-19 16:25 ` Charles Lindsey
2005-08-18 21:11 ` David Trudgett
2005-08-18 21:36 ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-18 23:43 ` David Trudgett
2005-08-19 2:13 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2005-08-19 9:44 ` OT: What was the first programming language to use David Trudgett
2005-08-19 14:22 ` jayessay
2005-08-19 15:08 ` OT: What was the first programming language to use 'generics'? Robert A Duff
2005-08-19 18:09 ` jayessay
2005-08-19 15:42 ` jayessay
2005-08-19 2:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-08-21 17:33 ` adaworks
[not found] ` <odeig19vmplnbt67s3s148eb4mqrk9vujd@4ax.com>
2005-08-23 7:03 ` adaworks
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