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Implementing `let` without using a macro
I'm learning Lisp, and I've just gotten to let, which I don't quite understand (the implementation of).
A common definition for it is given in terms of lambda as a macro. However, nowhere have I ...
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Greenspun's Tenth Rule, does every large project include a Lisp interpreter?
Greenspun's tenth rule (actually the only rule) states that:
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of ...
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Is macros support in a programming language considered harmful?
The first abuse that comes to my mind in C is:
#define if while
But at the same time it is extremely handy and powerful when used correctly.
Something similar happens with Common Lisp macros.
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