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by el_memorioso 864 days ago
Why m-expressions (Algol syntax)? McCarthy initially tried m-expressions for Lisp, but it turned out that programmers liked s-expressions better.
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pfdietz 864 days ago
In particular, macros work great with s-expressions, not so great with m-expressions.
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HexDecOctBin 864 days ago
There has been some new research around this old problem, which inspired me: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3622818
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