Re: Amiga Installer "Lisp" (was Re: Python gets macros - now XML does too)

From: Manuel Lemos (mlemos_at_acm.org)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:12:30 -0200

Hello,

on 12/19/2004 08:09 PM David Golden said the following:
>>>Last time that I studied and wrote a Lisp dialect I do not recall
>>>seeing any support for meta-programming. Maybe you are calling
>>When was that last time?
>>
>>
>
> He might mean Amiga Installer scripting (~ early 1990s) as he previously
> mentioned, in which case he'd be right, near enough - metaprogramming
> support was minimal in that...
>
> Installer "lisp" was a sexp-syntax language alright, but not exactly an
> amazing example of lisp. It was a little interpreted language with
> lots of domain-specific functions that handled walking users through
> installing amiga applications. Kindof like lisp plus defsystem plus
> gui-wizard-builder minus lisp. Seriously, scanning the docs now, I
> don't think it even had QUOTE, DEFMACRO would have been light-years
> away.

Right.

> Manuel, if you're basing your opinion of Lisp on Amiga Installer "Lisp",
> you're way, way off (apart from the syntax)!

I do not have nothing against or for LISP. I just said that I did not
recall any metaprogramming features of LISP when I tried it. 

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Manuel Lemos
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