Macros are frowned-upon but used when necessary. To put an analogy: people would've disgusted if you used a life jacket for no good reason, but they're handy w

Macros are frowned-upon but used when necessary. To put an analogy: people would've disgusted if you used a life jacket for no good reason, but they're handy when you really need them :) I also like Lisp syntax regardless of macros, mainly because it's simple, consistent and prefix notation is really handy. The S-expr abstraction IS useful when dealing with code blocks (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5940620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5940620)