What are AST Macros?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 07/13/2010 02:00 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Steven Schveighoffer"<schveiguy at yahoo.com>  wrote in message
> news:op.vfsn2hvweav7ka at localhost.localdomain...
>>
>> Just for fun, how would you define a serious language?
>>
>> 1. Major major websites use it (facebook is one example, there are many
>> more).
>> 2. There are lots of books about it.
>> 3. people make serious money doing it, not just play money.
>> 4. major IDEs support it (I use netbeans, and probably would be lost
>> without it).
>> 5. The documentation is complete and well written.
>> 6. It supports interfaces to many major technologies (many databases,
>> apache, pdf, etc.)
>>
>
> For me, there'd be two criteria (in no order):
>
> 1. Useful
> 2. Doesn't suck
>
> :)
>
>

That leaves only D on the table :o).

Andrei