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How does Mulisp know how to print an arbitrary Lisp-style macro in Algol style?


Obviously such Algol program produces Lisp-code and looks incomprehensible.

But when Mulisp finally conquers the world, we can make backquote-style macro for Algol, where special characters indicate that following stuff needs to evaluated and inserted to the code.


> But when Mulisp finally conquers the world...

That will be never. If Mulisp hasn't done so in the last 46 years, it never will.


it was finnish deadpan humor


I asked an LLM and it suggested humor is forbidden here on English days ending in "y" because of Poe's law. This is why we can't we have nice things.


I don’t know, but I found the muLISP/muSTAR-80 Artificial Intelligence Development System Reference Manual on the Wayback Machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140530042250/http://maben.home...




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