Still, LEO is halfway to anywhere in the Solar System, so that's exciting.

Also you can assemble things in LEO from multiple launches. Once you're up there, you have a lot more freedom in terms of size and shape.

Halfway to anywhere, but the window to anywhere is quite small. For Mars, I think it's only a few weeks every two years or so. So having a lot of mass already halfway there when the window opens would be quite advantageous.

The hype had this thing already on the Moon by now.

“At SpaceX We specialize in making the impossible merely late”

-Elon

*Mars

"An uncrewed test flight was planned for 2025 to demonstrate a successful landing on the Moon which has since been delayed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS

Still they are making good progress if a bit slower than that.

The "syntax extension" thing is precisely the reason I have an interest in (and advocacy for) Common Lisp.

Be that as it may, for C++, Eric Neibler's [Boost.Proto](https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_84_0/doc/html/proto.html) could likely help conveniently connect syntax to implementation to achieve something similar to what the author is taking about.

"Gondwana": land of the Gonds

"Gondwanaland": land of the Gonds land

Do they have an ATM machine there?

No, but they were prolific producents of compact CD disks.

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