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Name: Anonymous 2012-06-06 12:53

Do we actually program, any of us, here? or is this just a troll board for people to get mad at each other "EAT SHIT AND DIE LISPFAG" without actually having ever used lisp or understood it...

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-07 5:53

>>25
Assuming you were >>22 you were lumping in Lisp with BNF and regexp. The point is that Lisp is more analogous to a plain text file with lines that happen to have BNF code upon it, than BNF itself. In other words, it is a structured storage mechanism for which you could store anything you want.

Also, a metalanguage is by formal definition a language about a language. BNF and regexp can only pretty much do things like that. A subset of XML (that Lisp doesn't have, remember, austere) does this declaratively for that purpose through its SGML heritage. Lisp can store a metalanguage but none is specified in plain Lisp syntax, that's the job of the Lisp subfamily or implementations with actual form definitions.

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Lol! You even made a new thread over this. I like the vigor.

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