THANK YOU! I've been trying to understand wtf lisp macros are for so long I'm embarrassed to say. I've heard that their "extremely powerful" and kept thinking "

THANK YOU! I've been trying to understand wtf lisp macros are for so long I'm embarrassed to say. I've heard that their "extremely powerful" and kept thinking "Macros? like in C? In Excel? WTF is the big deal about macros?" Now I understand why I should learn lisp other than to play with its weird-but-kinda-cool-looking prefix notation.