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Re: Macros, hard sell [was Re: Excavators [was: A language idea: Elle]]



In defense of C macros, they allowed Richard Stallman to write large 
portions of GCC in a manner that resembled Lisp while still being C 
code.

On Tuesday, Jan 7, 2003, at 17:31 US/Eastern, Shriram Krishnamurthi 
wrote:

> You'd be surprised (maybe) by how many people think @macros@ implies
> @C macros@.