> the haters that parrot this old, barnacle-ridden trope: it's too powerful! Macros! Nobody can understand it but gods and strange people on the Internet! You w

> the haters that parrot this old, barnacle-ridden trope: it's too powerful! Macros! Nobody can understand it but gods and strange people on the Internet! You will have to listen to these people constantly invade every forum, discussion group, and chat room on the Internet to tell you how you shouldn't be learning CL. These people are actually the reason I went and learned CL. I couldn't understand why some programmers would hate a programming language so much. Now it's one of my favourite languages.