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		quickthrower2 on Feb 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running Lisp in Production (2020) Macros (and in other languages meta programming) should only be allowed when the writer is going to produce top notch documentation ^H write a oreilly-publish-worthy book on how the hell their thing works. With beginner tutorials! You write DSL, you write book!

ravi-delia on Feb 3, 2022 [–]

I guess when I say I wouldn't want to work on a CL project with other programmers, it's more for their benefit than mine :)

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