On Aug 4, 2007, at 11:48 , Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

Hello Brandon,

Saturday, August 4, 2007, 7:27:16 PM, you wrote:

On Aug 4, 2007, at 11:19 , Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

and use it. want to assign a=b/(c+d)? nothing can be easier! just
define one more macro!

And?  Everything above machine code is just "macros" at various
levels of abstraction, including all our favorite higher-level
abstractions.

and what you prefer? assembler or high-level language?

That would be why I'm using a language which lets me compose things in complex ways. And just once, abstracting it away into a library, which you seem to be missing.

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