What are AST Macros?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:48:30 -0400, retard <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote:

> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:53:12 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>> Brainfuck is basically a toy example of a language.  Nobody uses it for
>> serious work.
>
>> Having used php for the last year in my job, there is one thing I
>> appreciate: with a language that is focused on string manipulation, it
>> is so much better to be able to simply output variables inside strings
>> rather than having to exit a quotation, and use a concatenation
>> operator.
>
> Php is basically a toy example of a language.  Nobody uses it for serious
> work. You just think your work is serious, but it isn't. Php shows what
> the world would look like if it was created by an "intelligent designer".

No, it's you who are not serious ;)

php sucks as a language, but its what I have to work with.  There are some  
good parts to it.

>> I don't have much experience with these languages except that in college
>> while taking a scheme course, I wanted to create a bonfire out of all
>> parentheses keys.
>
> Sounds really mature. "I have no experience with D, it's just some shitty
> language with lots of semicolons - yea, lots of semicolons is all I
> remember and that after finding Python I've never looked back - Python is
> the most native high-performance language I know". You've probably missed
> 99% of the power of Lisp by only focusing on parenthesis.

So go join the lisp newsgroup and give out online high fives.  I'll just  
stay right here, thanks :)

-Steve