When I was in the Film Club at St. Andrew's College in 1977... (yeah, yeah, walked to school barefeet in a blizzard, only Aurora, Ontario really did have winter

When I was in the Film Club at St. Andrew's College in 1977... (yeah, yeah, walked to school barefeet in a blizzard, only Aurora, Ontario really did have winter blizzards!) Anyhow, Dr. Rupert Ray, the "Master" running the club gave us a piece of advice: When reviewing a film, review the film you saw and not the film you would wish you saw. So for example I think criticism like The conspicuous absence of macros cannot be obscured by the presence of preprocessors is witty, but it is really reviewing a language that is a dialect of Lisp with a glaring defect rather than reviewing a language that may or may not provide a different solution to the problems that macros solve.