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Bit surprised at negativity about my lisp comments -- I am infatuated with the elegance of Scheme out of all proportion to its relevance

>>10
Um, every one of them. It's just that with Lisp you can use Lisp's lexer as the lexer and the macro arglists as the parser. That's the only work that Lisp saves you, and it's not much.

>>24
Macros are not even good parsers. If you want to implement any serious kind of syntax, you have to implement most of syntactic checking and error reporting yourself.