Bijan Parsia <bparsia@email.unc.edu> wrote:
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| Latte (<http://www.zanshin.com/latte/home.html>), OTOH, seems to be
| basically scheme embedded in the text stream with TeXish delimiters
| (i.e., '{}' instead of '()', and \ to mark variables & functions). Why
| it isn't written *in* a Scheme, I'm not sure :)
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After looking at the documentation a little deeper, that's very
puzzling to me, too!!! Especially in Appendix A, "Pedigree"
<URL:http://www.zanshin.com/latte/latte.html#SEC37>, it's clear that:

	Many of Latte's other features come from Scheme (a dialect of Lisp),
	including: prefix notation... lexical scope... manifest types...
	quasiquoting... and first-class functions... (created with \lambda
	and \macro ...)

Given that -- and the *large* number of Latte "builtins", which basically
duplicate almost all of Scheme's control structures & arithmetic &c. --
why, oh, why didn't he just do it *in* Scheme??!?  Why C++?!?  [Note: He's
an experienced Emacs hacker, so it's not due to any lack of familiarity with
Lisp syntax...]

I dunno, maybe it's just what you're used to. *I* certainly could do it a
heck of a lot faster & easier in Scheme (or Common Lisp) than in C++, but...


-Rob

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