You can express things with macros that you can not with normal code. But with the advent of decorators and templates that gap has shrunk, and with C++ template

You can express things with macros that you can not with normal code. But with the advent of decorators and templates that gap has shrunk, and with C++ templates for example. It might almost be possible to do everything with templates that you can do with macros. That code might end up looking weird though.