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By mrxd
via danintouch.blogspot.com
Published: Sep 18 2007 / 15:20

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Why would you write source that creates source that creates source. Either because you're an idiot or you're Dan, who I have on good authority (he told me so) is both. :)
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omouse replied ago:

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That's it? I was hoping for something a bit more magical, a bit more Lisp-like, not this Perl regexp-parsing and writing to a file.

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mantrid replied ago:

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me too

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mrxd replied ago:

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To be fair, it was posted under the java and ruby tags so it not looking like Lisp shouldn't have been too much of a shock to the system.

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