Re: [xml-dev] Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot? (was Re: [xml-dev]dtds, schemas, xhtml, and multimedia technologies)

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>]

[Alaric B. Snell]>
> Drifting off topic, I once designed a mechanism for avoiding having to run
> code generators which was based around a Cunning Trick to allow a language
to
> be its own macro language, with willy-nilly sharing of contexts between
> compile time and run time (which is useful because you can define a
function
> in a library then use it both at compile time and run time)... which lets
you
> create 'macros' that perform arbitrary 'compilation' to generate the
actual
> code the compiler compiles.
>

Sounds like FORTH.

Cheers,

Tom P