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Re: LFM + LFSP = LFE?




On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 07:47 PM, Michael St . Hippolyte wrote:
> On 2003.06.17 19:07 Michael Vanier wrote:
>> I think syntax is important, but not in the way most people think.  I 
>> like
>> s-expression syntax not because it's the prettiest (it isn't), or 
>> because
>> it's the most readable (it isn't), but because it's the most 
>> scalable.  You
>> can, in effect, beat the living crap out of it (e.g. with macros) and 
>> it
>> still looks the same.

S-expressions aren't unique in this respect.

Cheers,
Steve
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