Re: What is a lightweight language

[Dorai Sitaram <address@hidden>]

Paul Graham writes
> 
> I think Shriram, that there is no harm in admitting that
> continuations are kind of mind-bending.  I've done a
> lot of continuation hacking and I still find them
> disconcerting.  Ditto for nested backquote.  

Dan Weinreb's tale of Bawden's tracking down the
logic to the nested backquote is fascinating.  I wish
Scheme had persisted (in its standard) with the
quasiquotation-based macro instead of worrying that
innocents might get hurt.     

BTW, is your pilot implementation of Arc going to be in
CL?  Will it be called Arc-en-ciel?

--d