Macros (in the Lisp sense) are still, as far as I know, unique to
Lisp. This is partly because in order to have macros you probably have
to make your language look as strange as Lisp. It may also be because
if you do add that final increment of power, you can no longer claim
to have invented a new language, but only a new dialect of Lisp.
Haskell has real macros like Lisp, but is statically typed. I'm still
fond of Lisp because it is so easy to make programs write programs, as
the syntax is so simple. nVidia (they say) have a language called NOVA
that combines some of the essential properties of Haskell with Lisp.
nVidia would have a long way to go to match mature implementations of
either.
Marcus
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