Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)

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• Subject: Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)
• From: "Paul F. Dietz" <dietz@interaccess.com>
• Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:00:04 -0400 (EDT)
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Neel Krishnaswami wrote:

> But Common Lisp has a set of powerful features Dylan doesn't. Reader
> macros, compiler macros, and the ability to do computation at macro
> expansion time. Dylan's macros are very close to Scheme's; they are a
> hygienic pattern-expansion mechanism (plus a feature to deliberately
> break hygiene).

I was interested in Dylan, but this makes me much less interested.
I use the power of CL's macros all the time.

	Paul

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