Contents of DECREMENT Register.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 28, 2007 6:20 PM, Brian Sniffen <<a href="mailto:brian.sniffen@gmail.com">brian.sniffen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Dec 28, 2007 6:05 AM, Andrew Coppin <<a href="mailto:andrewcoppin@btinternet.com">andrewcoppin@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br>> [I actually heard a number of people tell me that learning LISP would
<br>> change my life forever because LISP has something called "macros". I<br>> tried to learn it, and disliked it greatly. It's too messy. And what the<br>> heck is "cdr" ment to mean anyway? To me, LISP doesn't even seem all
<br>> that different from normal languages (modulo weird syntax). Now<br>> Haskell... that's FUN!]<br><br></div>Contents of Data Register.<br><br>Macros are like Template Haskell. One example of where they're useful
<br>is programmer definition of new binding forms. That's not possible in<br>Haskell without Templates. Macros were invented in Lisp because the<br>syntax is so easy for machine manipulation---they don't have a tenth
<br>the complexity of Template Haskell for about the same power.<br><br>-Brian<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Brian T. Sniffen<br><a href="mailto:bts@alum.mit.edu">bts@alum.mit.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:brian.sniffen@gmail.com">
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