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From: aarons@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: Virtues of Lisp syntax
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Date: 21 Sep 90 19:41:05 GMT
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jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) writes:

> .....And what other language
> lets you define new control structures?

Just for the record -- Pop-11 does, either using macros (though they
are somewhat different from Lisp macros, as pointed out in previous
discussion in comp.lang.lisp) or by defining new "syntax words" that
read in some text and plant code for the incremental compiler.

Aaron Sloman,
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences,
Univ of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, England
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