I remember being struck by a snippet of pseudocode in a discrete mathematics textbook[0]: https://pastebin.com/L2dwawgu https://pastebin.com/L2dwawgu So basic

I remember being struck by a snippet of pseudocode in a discrete mathematics textbook[0]: https://pastebin.com/L2dwawgu https://pastebin.com/L2dwawgu So basically being able to run an arbitrary number of dependent, nested loops. Now imagine you want to run arbitrary code in the interior, rather than just incrementing a count. It's a simple idea. And it can be expressed so succinctly in just a few lines of pseudocode in a freshman-level computer science textbook. And yet I wouldn't want to touch this in Java. The lisp macro to write this isn't much more verbose than the pseudocode itself. [0] Rosen's Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, 7th e. Edit: Traded formatting for pastebin