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   Tristan Wibberley to Tristan Wibberley   
   Re: Rejecting expressions of formal lang   
   16 Nov 25 18:44:48   
   
   XPost: comp.theory   
   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 16/11/2025 00:10, Tristan Wibberley wrote:   
      
   > Since Olcott has a problem with the lack of formal semantics for C he   
   > should probably go for Scheme (avoiding define-syntax and let-syntex,   
   > etc)   
      
   Actually no, to make full use of its quoting, you'd need define-syntax.   
   But then it's very complex, too.   
      
   What goal are we really talking about trying to achieve anyway?   
      
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