On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:02:34 -0000, Keith Willshaw wrote:

No, he merely thinks Lisp's macro system has advantages, when trying
to solve hard problems.

And some nasty disadvantages which is why it has somewhat
fallen out of favour.

All solutions have disadvantages. (Because all the ones that don't a
standard practise, and no-one ever considers doing it another way).

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