> The idea is more about exploring what can be done when designing a less powerful language, without macros. Lot's of things. But the language won't be able to

> The idea is more about exploring what can be done when designing a less powerful language, without macros. Lot's of things. But the language won't be able to easily compute code at compile time, which a main purpose of macros. Lisp has a simple data format for source code and thus code transformations are relatively simple to do and even integrated into the language.