Needle and Macros
Needle and Macros
Neel Krishnaswami has been a consistently interesting and frequent
poster to comp.lang.python
for quite some time. His current project is a programming language
called needle. There's
an interesting
discussion about Needle on the Lambda weblog. It has macros.
I'll look forward to seeing more details. I have my doubts about
macros, but I've never had the chance to use "macros done well"
since I so dislike the Lisp-like syntax that surrounds most of the
systems with "macros done well".
The MIT little-langs list (archives seem to be too slow to
find a URL at the moment) has a discussion that Todd
Proebsting started today: "Macros Make Me Mad".
This is one aspect of what I was referring to in
a September posting here on GIGO.
I suspect that macros mostly
live only in "Languages Designed for Cowboys" and do not
really belong in "Languages Designed for Teams".
11:11:46 PM
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