From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-02-21T01:28:02+09:00
Subject: Re: REBOL vs Ruby

Hi,

In message "Re: REBOL vs Ruby"
    on 02/02/20, Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

|> Maybe it's mostly matter of taste, a man can program in FORTH or Lisp,
|> one can even love them.  Yes, I love Lisp.  And FORTH... well.. FORTH
|
|This is interesting. What do you think of Lisp-style macros?

I love Lisp, but Ruby turned out NOT to be Lisp.
Macros enhance language flexibility, but also hinder readability.

I believe basic syntax should not tangle in the wind.  Language
flexibility should achieved by preprocessor or custom frontend.
I hope Rite will provide modularized frontend (parser).

							matz.