I like the C# approach of having a ton of syntactic sugar. I mean, if you look at what a basic `yield return` loop actually compiles to... That's some crazy met

I like the C# approach of having a ton of syntactic sugar. I mean, if you look at what a basic `yield return` loop actually compiles to... That's some crazy metaprogramming going on. But by encoding it at the language level, they help assure that the metaprogramming is accurate and universal. * Accurate: the final construct does what the meta-construct says it should. * Universal: everyone speaks with the same meta-constructs. The antithesis of universal is the Lisp Curse [0], and I think that's a natural conclusion of free metaprogramming, as opposed to the constrained metaprogramming that something like C# offers. [0] http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html