[racket] Blog post about Racket

"Macros" may be evil but "grafts" are perfectly sensible operations on
trees. To hear some tell it, it's the best way to propagate some
low-hanging fruit. Wait, am I mixing metaphors?



On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

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> I'll watch from the other side as we wait for the last "macros are evil"
> programmer to die. Oh but we just found a reason in a different thread that
> will keep C alive, so perhaps you'll join me there first :-)
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> On May 12, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
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> > At Mon, 12 May 2014 11:06:11 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
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> >> On May 12, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Matthew Butterick <mb at mbtype.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> To be fair, that will be difficult given how often the docs refer to
> the
> >> m-word ;)
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, I am losing this battle even with those of my own students who
> work on
> >> syntactic matters (Matthew, Ryan, and Shriram).
> >
> > I tried for a while to avoid the word, but it was too awkward. Some of
> > the world has since caught up to the idea that "macros" can be good,
> > and I expect that the rest of the world will catch up.
> >
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