Alex Mizrahi wrote: > (message (Hello 'Ken) > (you :wrote :on '(Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:26:02 -0500)) > ( > > KT> keep the Pythonistas from straying. But you have an excuse: Lispniks > KT> always /talk/ about macros giving us the ability to create a DSL. But > KT> no one does. :) > > certainly there's no reason to make a new DSL each day, but sometimes they > are good. > i've recently posted an example of DSL to do queries to RDF data base -- i > find it's very helpful.
That is different. Your very objective /was/ a language. Naturally, you created one. I am talking about PGs suggestion that the best way to solve a problem is to create a language for that problem and then use it. What I think happens more often is the other thing Graham said: building up CL to be a better language for the problem. So the language is still predominantly and visibly CL, and here and there are chunks of macrology hiding a crapload of boilerplate. ken -- Algebra: http://www.tilton-technology.com/LispNycAlgebra1.htm "Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd "I'll say I'm losing my grip, and it feels terrific." -- Smiling husband to scowling wife, New Yorker cartoon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
