Brian Harvey wrote:
>> Are you all trying to give hope to the top level?
> 
> I see you have "math" in your return address, so I take it you understand
> the idea of proof by contradiction.  So let's see...
> 
> 1.  Lisp has had 50 years of vibrant innovation, highly productive 
> programmers,
> great advances in everything from practical storage allocation strategies to
> theoretical computer science, all with a top level repl.
> 
> 2.  The world view of Matthew Flatt and/or PLT and/or hygienic macros implies
> that the top level is hopeless.
> 
> What can we conclude from these observations?

That Lisp is hopeless?  Viva la Scheme!

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