Personally, I find homoiconicity is key to easy construction of macros, and to do that, you need s-exprs (or something similar). Without that, it's certainly d

Personally, I find homoiconicity is key to easy construction of macros, and to do that, you need s-exprs (or something similar). Without that, it's certainly doable, but the result looks nothing like your non-macro code in that language.