D and the world

[eao197]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:25:48 +0400, Georg Wrede <georg at nospam.org> wrote:

> eao197 wrote:
>> Don Clugston <dac at nospam.com.au> wrote:
>>> The question is, how well does metaprogramming scale in each of these   
>>> languages?
>>  I don't understand what you meen with 'scale'.
>
> Scale means: you can do the same thing if your program is small and if  
> it is big.

There is another sence of 'scale': can a project with intensive use of  
macros be manageable and maintainable if the project team has one,  
two,..., ten,..., a hundred or more programmers.

AFAIK, Lisp proves that languages with high degree of metaprogramming  
don't scale well in that sence. Because every developer tends to invent  
his own, more powerful and elegant Lisp  
[http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?SocialProblemsOfLisp ;)].

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Regards,
Yauheni Akhotnikau