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macro languages (Score:1)
Do you know Scheme? One interesting thing in Scheme is continuations, which Ocaml (to my knowledge) is lacking, but parrot is promising to deliver.
Scheme and Lisp in general are the prototype of extensible syntax languages. I haven't tried camlp4 yet, so dunno if it's going to be as clean.
There are quite fast (and some very fast) scheme implementations as well. One thing that might make Scheme more similar to Perl than Ocaml, is that it's (general