Let's look at some Common Lisp example: https://github.com/Wukix/LambdaLite/blob/master/lambdalite.lisp https://github.com/Wukix/LambdaLite/blob/master/lambdal

Let's look at some Common Lisp example: https://github.com/Wukix/LambdaLite/blob/master/lambdalite.lisp https://github.com/Wukix/LambdaLite/blob/master/lambdalite.l... This is a recent tiny in-core database. The code is using LOTS of macros. It also implements a few non-trivial macros. Half of the code is implemented as macros. Code like that is not unusual in Lisp.