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! _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
