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Re: What is a lightweight language
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