[Haskell-cafe] DSL question -- was: New slogan for haskell.org

[Bill Wood]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:03 -0500, Steve Lihn wrote:
   . . .
> In the Disadvantage section (near the end), there is an item -- hard
> or impossible to debug. Can anybody explain why or what it means? And
> how does it apply to Haskell?

Lisp has long been touted as a good language for developing a DSL, one
reason being it's macro system.  However, it has also long been realized
that DSLs implemented with macros can be extremely difficult to debug
because by the time bugs manifest the (macro) source is long gone and
its connection to the expansion text is difficult to determine.

 -- Bill Wood