You can code your own dialect of ANYTHING. OOP does this all the time (anyone for Enterprise Fizzbuzz). C considers macros as bad because they are dangerous an

You can code your own dialect of ANYTHING. OOP does this all the time (anyone for Enterprise Fizzbuzz). C considers macros as bad because they are dangerous and have all kinds of weird side effects that break things. If they had all the capabilities of lisp macros, you wouldn't be hearing all the complaints.