From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <tomasz.wegrzanowski@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T07:01:51+09:00
Subject: Re: RLisp - Lisp naturally embedded in Ruby

On 7/26/06, N Okia <wrecklass1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) I have really liked Ruby for the very reason that I can often
> express algorithms from scheme/lisp directly in Ruby, but with a much
> more readable syntax. Yes, This will be controversial to the lambda
> devotees. However, my point is that Ruby can do this far easier than
> languages like C or Java.

I agree that Ruby syntax is usually nicer.
However, it's a lot more difficult to play with macros if you have
Ruby-like syntax.
S-expressions make it much easier :-)

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Tomasz Wegrzanowski [ http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/ ]