What are AST Macros?

[retard]

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:30:19 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:20:03 -0400, retard <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> It doesn't matter what language you use. The concepts are the same
>> regardless of the syntax. If I liked the parenthesis hell, I'd probably
>> use Lisp. But it's still not a good argument to bring up every time
>> Lisp is being discussed. You're dismissing all intelligent discussion
>> by ranting about the syntax. Almost everyone here agrees that Lisp has
>> too little syntax, so that point doesn't bring any new value.
> 
> Maybe you misunderstood my original statement.  Scheme may introduce
> some nice paradigms, and be well designed, but I just couldn't get past
> the parentheses.  Therefore, I have little experience in scheme, even
> though I used it.  That's all I was saying.
> 
> My professor would write some scheme example on the board, and then
> write a bunch of closing parentheses as he was saying "cdr, cons, etc."
> so I was absolutely thoroughly lost most of the time :)  I'm surprised I
> even passed that class.  We had to write a scheme interpreter in scheme,
> it was probably way too advanced for my brain at the time.

Ok. There are some code visualization tools for Lisp/Scheme with color 
encoded blocks and indentation instead of parentheses. You could also 
rewrite 'car' and 'cdr' as 'head' and 'tail'.