Re: Are macros really a neccessity, or a coverup of language deficiencies?

Subject: Re: Are macros really a neccessity, or a coverup of language      deficiencies?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 2000/04/29
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3166034318949868@naggum.no>

* "Marc Battyani" <Marc_Battyani@csi.com>
| In fact it's interresting that both Lisp and assembly languages are
| the languages with the more powerful macro capabilities.

  especially those popular at the time people were expected to write
  real code in assembly.  I only got really familiar with the PDP-10
  and its MACRO-10 language among the great processors of our time,
  but, boy, what an incredibly powerful macro language!  tell this to
  the kids these days, however, and they just won't believe you.

#:Erik