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by derefr 5641 days ago
It's not a troll, it's a satire. Like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/ez2he/this_flash_rpg.... The point of any satire is to get you to notice that the comments you're making about the satire, could equally be applied to the thing it satirizes. In this case:

> [Most articles about Lisp] start with a grand puprose namely "In which the truth about lisp is revealed, and some alternatives are enumerated."

> But [they] end up being one big collection of headlines and popular opinions people have about the language.

> Why would anyone without any amount of research choose to write on a subject?

(Also, on a completely separate tangent: XSLT can transform XML, and XSLT is XML, so XSLT can transform XSLT. Thus, you could have "XSLT macros" that work in the same way Lisp macros do.)

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>Thus, you could have "XSLT macros" that work in the same way Lisp macros do.

Yes of course. How could I not see the power of XSLT macros?