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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Are macros really a neccessity, or a coverup of language      deficiencies?
Date: 2000/04/29
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* "Marc Battyani" <Marc_Battyani@csi.com>
| In fact it's interresting that both Lisp and assembly languages are
| the languages with the more powerful macro capabilities.

  especially those popular at the time people were expected to write
  real code in assembly.  I only got really familiar with the PDP-10
  and its MACRO-10 language among the great processors of our time,
  but, boy, what an incredibly powerful macro language!  tell this to
  the kids these days, however, and they just won't believe you.

#:Erik