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nessus42
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Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Ins...
I enjoyed the article. I just have a factual correction: Lisp had real macros as early as the 70s, not the 80s. (Maybe even earlier, for all I know.)
daniel-cussen
on Jan 8, 2014
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Lisp macros were introduced in 1963 by Tim Hart at MIT.
pmcjones
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Here's the original technical report:
ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-057.pdf
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