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107 points winkywooster | 1 comments | 27 Nov 25 15:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.386s | source
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parpfish ◴[07 Dec 25 16:21 UTC] No.46182834[source]▶
it'd be nice if there was an attempt to give an example of what kind of powers moving into 3d-lispland allows instead of just saying that it's beyond the comprehension of the 2d-planar programmers.

because, i guarantee that it's not beyond our comprehension. at some point the author was a 2d-er that read/did something and had their understanding expanded. so... do that for us

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1. Sophira ◴[07 Dec 25 17:04 UTC] No.46183163[source]▶
This, exactly.

I had heard before that Lisp had something called "macros", but I didn't know exactly what they were or how they differed from C macros. This blog post kind of explains that, but not in a way that couldn't also apply to C macros if you tried hard enough.

I want to know more, but I didn't have any examples here to look at. I may look them up now that I have an idea.