[nem-en] Re: Metaphor, staging, typed reflection

[Sandro Magi]

Andrey Khropov wrote:
> Sandro Magi wrote:
> 
>> Right, but there are cases where compile-time knowledge is zero or very
>> near-zero. They are fairly rare at the moment (except plugins), but I
>> think that's only because our tools for handling these cases are so poor
>> that no one would attempt it 
> 
> Lisp has been in existence since 1958.

I meant of course, "our tools for handling dynamic code generation
statically, and safely". Lisp is powerful, but not statically typed or
any safer than dynamic code generation via reflection.

Sandro