[LA.pm] Thanks for letting me present

[Ben Tilly]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
<merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Tilly <btilly at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Ben> I thought more about it.  If I went down this road, I'd be inclined to
> Ben> make it more lisp-like, and have some useful functionality available
> Ben> by default so that people don't need to write those messy bits.  That
> Ben> would reduce Eric's solution to something like this:
>
> "And once again, a massive templating system was formed, from the seed
> of a 'keep it simple' start..."
>
> :-)

It hasn't happened yet.  So far it is all an exercise in armchair
language design.

And won't happen unless someone actually seems to need this kind of
functionality.  (Eric suggested that he has a use case, but I'm not
sure it is worthwhile.)

That said, if I was to build a "massive templating system", there are
worse places to draw inspiration from than Lisp...