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Re:Why Lisp? by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday May 07, 2015 @05:37PM (#9508474)
It's kind of cool how in lisp you're supposed to do macros to change major aspects of how the language behaves, but in C if you try having a little bit of fun with #define and the pre-processor everybody starts getting just extremely rude at you.
Re:Why Lisp? by the_af on Thursday May 07, 2015 @09:12PM (#9509472)
To be fair, C #define macros are extremely dangerous and error prone in ways that Lisp macros aren't.

I haven't bought into this "Lisp macros are the best thing since sliced bread" idea, but without a doubt they are infinitely more awesome than C macros.

Re:Why Lisp? by Dewie3 on Friday May 08, 2015 @05:03AM (#9510635)
Could the reason perhaps be that Lisp macro facilities tend to be much more sane than C's pre-processor? Just a wiiild guess.
Re:Why Lisp? by swuecho on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:16PM (#9508734)
That is part of the reason. everybody think lisp cool, but very few programmer use lisp.