In MS Visual studio, for C#, with a plugin called resharper, macros can be astonishingly effective. For programming competitions I developed a fairly extensive

In MS Visual studio, for C#, with a plugin called resharper, macros can be astonishingly effective. For programming competitions I developed a fairly extensive set of macros, and they've been pretty good to me. Unfortunately, they can't quite do everything I want them to, and that has me looking at Lisp.