Re: [stack] QuoteAndEval

Manfred Von Thun scripsit:

> Thank you, I did not know about the alternative syntax. My relevant manual
> (in this case Bourne¹s ..The Unix Programming Environment.. 1982 (?)
> does not have it. But my eMac here knows about it...

It didn't exist that long ago, but it is in Posix, and therefore in the
ash/dash, ksh, and bash shells at least.

> Yes, Lisp¹s macros .. I have never used them in the 5 or 6 pages of Lisp
> that I have written. Oleg has some amazing things to say about
> various lambda calculus interpreters hidden inside Lisp and Scheme,
> with call by name and call by value. I can¹t find it right now, sorry.

"Lisp programmers don't write in Lisp: their macros do it for them."

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