> You're clearly upset that I didn't praise Common Lisp, but things like that don't lead to useful discussion. > How is that is relevant to my comment? No, I a

> You're clearly upset that I didn't praise Common Lisp, but things like that don't lead to useful discussion. > How is that is relevant to my comment? No, I am upset that you are posting misinformed comments about Common Lisp macros vs D templating while representing yourself as being knowledgeable about the subject. You clearly do not understand how the former works. > I've never seen anyone write macros using only s-expressions. True, you don't need to learn any special syntax to do it, but that's not how anyone writes macros. Please stop pretending that you have enough experience with Common Lisp to say things like "I've never seen anyone do X." Writing macros that call functions that return code is a basic technique - Graham's On Lisp is full of examples. Saying that quoting as a way of specifying list literals is a "complicated sublanguage" is on the level of "C++ templates have too many pointy brackets" of criticism.