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George Neuner  
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 More options Sep 9 2012, 12:41 am
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From: George Neuner <gneun...@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:41:27 -0400
Local: Sun, Sep 9 2012 12:41 am
Subject: Re: Re (2): Why didn't ML ever 'shine'?
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 06:00:30 +0000 (UTC), no.top.p...@gmail.com wrote:
>In article <pan.2012.09.07.04.04.34.219...@nowhere.com>, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:

>> The code-is-data aspect of Lisp is an advantage for writing
>> domain-specific languages.

>Yes, code-is-data-is-code allows develishly convoluted acrobatics.
>When I started coding I wrote mostly convoluted code.
>Often I had to put myself into a yoga-like-trance-state to
>understand it during development.

It's not about high-flying acrobatics ... mostly it's about JIT
compilation.  In Lisp (or Scheme) the compiler is available at
runtime, so a DSL can translate the foreign language to Lisp and
compile rather than interpreting.

I get the sense that you know this, but your comment leads in a
strange direction.  8-)

>== Chris Glur.

George

 
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