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		iso8859-1 on Oct 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sweet.js - Sweeten your Javascript (by Mozilla) So use Perl :) The thing about Perl is that there is supposed to be more than one way to do it. Which enables you to mix-and-match different paradigms in a way that the Python philosophy doesn't seem to welcome. Or just use a Lisp.

omaranto on Oct 14, 2012 [–]

Perl 6 even comes with hygienic macros, I believe. That should be much nicer than source filters in Perl 5.

dstorrs on Oct 14, 2012 | [–]

Perl 5 actually has several ways of doing macros without using source filters -- pragmas are one example.

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