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		breadbox on Aug 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf] I would heartily agree that some syntax is preferable to none ... when you're writing code in general. However, little or no syntax is a huge advantage when you're writing code that writes code. That's what makes Lisp so powerful.

eternauta3k on Aug 17, 2017 [–]

Why not have sugar for the human and s-expr for macros?

flavio81 on Aug 18, 2017 | [–]

Then you would have to know two languages at the same time: the sugary one and the macro one.

Having exactly the same languages makes macro writing really easy.

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