From: rmagere
Subject: Re: Looking for specific feedback: Story of Mac
Date:
Message-ID: <coivod$mku$1@news.ox.ac.uk>
"Peter Seibel" <·····@javamonkey.com> wrote in message
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> In chapter 8 of Practical Common Lisp there is a "Just So" story, The
> Story of Mac, about how macros came to be. ("Just So" as in Rudyard
> Kipling's Just So stories about how, say, the elephant got it's
> trunk.) So far the feedback on that section has been mixed--some folks
> hate it; others like it.
>
Ok I quite liked it, however I felt that it might have been a bit too long
and the point got slightly watered down.
But as you can see by the indefinite adjectives I am using I do not hold
strong views on the subject.