What are AST Macros?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
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> On 07/13/2010 02:00 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Steven Schveighoffer"<schveiguy at yahoo.com>  wrote in message
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>>>
>>> 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).
>

Yup :)

Well, and Nemerle if you're doing something that doesn't need systems 
capabilities.