The major advantage of Lisp macros over macros in other languages aren't their power but the fact that using Lisp's macro system is virtually the same as using

The major advantage of Lisp macros over macros in other languages aren't their power but the fact that using Lisp's macro system is virtually the same as using the rest of Lisp. Lisp macros look like Lisp and in manipulating code via macros you can leverage the rest of Lisp and Lisp's ecosystem. So writing Lisp macros is entirely natural for someone who already knows Lisp. You don't have to learn or use what is effectively a separate language, as you do with every other language that's not homoiconic. As Alan Perlis once said, "Beware the Turing tarpit, where everything is possible and nothing is easy."