this is not beginner code, lisp or otherwise. you are looking at macros. macros are a very powerful programming feature, and no other programming language excel

this is not beginner code, lisp or otherwise. you are looking at macros. macros are a very powerful programming feature, and no other programming language excells at writing macros to lisp level. moreover writing macros might not be very elegant compared to other code. however writing macros in lisp certainly is much more elegant compared to what you need to do to achieve the same result in other languages. the point of writing macros is to make calling them elegant