I've encountered countless situations where even a tiny macro made the code more concise, more readable and less error-prone. Functions are there for direct tr

I've encountered countless situations where even a tiny macro made the code more concise, more readable and less error-prone. Functions are there for direct transformation of some data. Macros are there for some more sophisticated, not immediately obvious transformation of some meta data. Functions are at a lower level, macros are at a higher level. Please remember: your users will use your programming language in unexpected ways: you (as a language designer) are most probably not the smartest human on Planet Earth: so please let someone smarter than you add the things which you were not able to conceive beforehand, thanks! Lisp thinks it this way. Congrats!!