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Ng Pheng Siong  
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 More options Aug 28 2002, 11:03 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: n...@vista.netmemetic.com (Ng Pheng Siong)
Date: 28 Aug 2002 14:59:51 GMT
Local: Wed, Aug 28 2002 10:59 am
Subject: Re: Why learn Lisp
According to Kaz Kylheku <k...@ashi.footprints.net>:

> If you know what real macros are, why do you make stupid claims
> about Lisp having a fixed syntax which forces you do to things one
> way, such as to keep nesting deeper and deeper if you want to
> introduce a series of lexical variables which refer to earlier
> lexical variables, and have code interspersed in between?

I'm a Lisp newbie, and I am producing code that looks like this.

What are the better alternatives? Enquiring minds want to know! ;-)

TIA. Cheers.

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Ng Pheng Siong <n...@netmemetic.com> * http://www.netmemetic.com


 
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