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Subject: Re: The end of stackoverflow?
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On 5/11/2024 4:45 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
> The most annoying is that 4 of 5 question that I want to
> ask there are destroyed by the moderators.

For all the folks who think "moderation" is the solution...  :>

>   It is largely arbitrary.
> Explain the difference between c and lisp macro's?
> IMHO dubious. Huge upvotes, apparently acceptable.
> Explain the difference between Forth and lisp macro's?
> A more sensible question because they are more related.
> Shot down, inappropiate for SO.
> My sensible m4 question (how to write a function that
> removes the first character of a string) was voted down.

In Inferno/Limbo, you would use "len" to determine the number
of characters in the argument (to guard against degenerate
cases -- with appropriate conditional logic) and then "substr"
to peel off the characters following the "0-th" character.