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Re:Why Lisp? by swuecho on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:14PM (#9508719)
generally, even bad api is easier to understand or debug than macro. and not all macros are well written.
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Re:Why Lisp? by kazinator on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:25PM (#9508771)
Macros being hard to debug may be true of some macro systems that you know.

Not all macros are well written is a poor argument; not all anything is well written ... so don't use anything!

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