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: David Hanley <djh@ncgr.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:15:03 -0400 (EDT)
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Scott McKay wrote:

> Christopher Browne wrote in message ...
>
> >
> >Ah, but when you're trying to sell _Dylan_, when it has _no_ market,
> >having a community of Lisp adopters might have been a Good Thing, and
> >might well have represented a lot more than 1% of the market _for
> >Dylan_.
>
> Hey, look, if the only thing that Lispers care about is having
> Lisp syntax, then they are as closed-minded as the C and Java
> communities.  Syntax is trivial.  Get over it.

Actually, I thought that the simple, regular syntax greatly assists in
creation
of source-code transforming macros, which is one of the big plusses
of LISP.

dave

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