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: Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 06:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
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rurban@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (Reini Urban) writes:

> Simon Brooke wrote:
> >Well, then, look again. LISP syntax results from the fact that LISP as
> >printed is a very nearly direct representation of the structures that
> >are created in the machine as it is read. 
> 
> are you mixing assembler with lisp here? 
> a lisp (READ) is a much more complicated then a C read().
> a lisp (PRINT) is much more complicated then a C write().

You're both right.  He said "read", not "compiled".  

I definitely think it's a win that we have a standard list-based form
(pun, uh, intended) on which the macro system operates.


-dan

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