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otabdeveloper2 on March 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Esoteric C++ Contest 2018

The cognitive dissonance required to believe that C++ templates are 'monstrous' while Lisp S-expressions are awesomely useful and productive is enormous.

C++ templates are far from user-friendly, but they're literally (literally) just Lisp S-expressions with a Lisp syntax and semantics.

pjc50 on March 23, 2019 [–]

The semantics of template resolution are important, and unlike anything I'm aware of in Lisp.

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