Re: LFM + LFSP = LFE?

[Bob Bane <address@hidden>]

Pascal Costanza wrote:
> 
> On Montag, Juni 16, 2003, at 10:05  Uhr, Robert Feldt wrote:
> ...
> > His view seems to be along the lines "Succinctness is good and its good
> > to allow some syntactic alternatives, but syntax should be stable
> > (once you've learned
> > it!) so macros is one step too far"...
> 
> Why do most language designers always think that they know better
> what's good for programmers than the programmers themselves?
> 
What's worse is language designers thinking that the syntax they have
*now* will be good enough for the forseeable future.  Lisp is still here
because macros gave it the flexibility to absorb structured programming,
OOP, exception handling, etc., without breaking stride.

	- Bob