What are AST Macros?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 07/13/2010 01:00 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote in message
> news:i1i332$19jl$2 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 07/13/2010 10:48 AM, retard 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.
>>
>> Facebook.
>>
>
> Nothing personal, but I wouldn't consider any of those social networking
> sites to be remotely "serious".

Me neither until I started working for them. Facebook is one of the most 
difficult companies to get hired at as a programmer, and as a direct 
consequence has amassed a lot of talented folks working on hard, 
interesting problems.

Andrei