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   olcott to Tristan Wibberley   
   Re: Rejecting expressions of formal lang   
   16 Nov 25 18:41:45   
   
   XPost: comp.theory   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/16/2025 12:44 PM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:   
   > 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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