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

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)
From: "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 19:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
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Johan Kullstam wrote in message ...

>it's not.  i like the lisp syntax because of its clean look.  more
>importantly, the syntax is what lets lisp have such powerful and
>useful macros

This is simply wrong.  What makes DRM Dylan macros less
powerful than Lisp macros is that they can call general procedures
at compile-time.  The syntax has nothing to do with it, except that
Lisp macros at their worst are even more unreadable than Dylan
ones.  As I have already said in this so-called conversation, the
adoption of Keith Playford's procedural macros for Dylan would
make them equally as powerful as Lisp's macros.

The confusion of macro power with infix is just that -- confusion.

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