What are AST Macros?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 07/14/2010 12:07 PM, retard wrote:
> 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?

Not sure I understand. The monthly bitter quip?

Andrei