On Dec 11, 3:58 pm, Randall R Schulz <rsch...@sonic.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 13:47, Sean Spencer wrote:
>
> > That was one of the best explanations of code as data I've ever read.
> > Kudos!
>
> Thanks. You forced me to look up the reference to which I alluded:
>
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 06:32, evins.mi...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: In core structure editor, anyone?
>
> > Structure editors are not in common use, maybe because, while they're
> > a valid and maybe cool alternative to text editors for lisp code,
> > it's not clear how useful they are for other kinds of code. In most
> > programming languages a lexer and parser construct an abstract syntax
> > tree from the source code. In lisp, the abstract syntax tree *is* the
> > source code. That being the case, it makes a lot of sense with lisp
> > to operate directly on the parse tree. In other languages, not so
> > much.
>
> So the kudos go to Mikel Evins (or is it Evins Mikel?).
Thanks.
It's mikel evins. GMail somehow arranged a few years ago to make my
preferred account name ("mikel") and my second choice ("mikelevins")
and my third choice ("mikel.evins") inaccessible to me. I haven't
bothered to understand what the problem is.
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