Lisp Macros on Kuro5hin

[Nikodemus Siivola]

This may have been posted before - if so, I apologise. Anyways, an article
on Kuro5hin deceptively titled:

"What's wrong with C++ templates?"

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/5/26/22429/7674

Here's a quote:

"Again, it turns out that this ability was old before templates were a
glimmer in Bjarne Stroustrup's eye in the form of Lisp macros. You may
recoil at the use of that name, but don't worry: Lisp macros are much more
pleasant to work with than their higher-profile cousins. At about the same
time Kernigan and Ritchie were inventing C and C preprocessor macros, a
group at the MIT Media Lab was inventing a system called MacLISP that
introduced Lisp macros, a totally different implementation of the macro
concept that survives to this day in Common Lisp and Scheme as well as in
a number of offshoots and related languages."

Cheers,

-- Nikodemus

[Barry Margolin]

In article <bbfjc8$5odbe$1...@midnight.cs.hut.fi>,

Nikodemus Siivola <tsii...@kekkonen.cs.hut.fi> wrote:
>"Again, it turns out that this ability was old before templates were a
>glimmer in Bjarne Stroustrup's eye in the form of Lisp macros. You may
>recoil at the use of that name, but don't worry: Lisp macros are much more
>pleasant to work with than their higher-profile cousins. At about the same
>time Kernigan and Ritchie were inventing C and C preprocessor macros, a
>group at the MIT Media Lab was inventing a system called MacLISP that
>introduced Lisp macros, a totally different implementation of the macro
>concept that survives to this day in Common Lisp and Scheme as well as in
>a number of offshoots and related languages."

Except that it was the MIT AI Lab, not the Media Lab. The Media Lab wasn't
even created until the late 80's.

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