What are AST Macros?

[retard]

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:30:43 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> 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.

Such as email scams.

http://a.imageshack.us/img823/3307/serioususe.jpg

I see a pattern here. Why should I trust You or Your Employer?