merits of Lisp vs Python

[Paul Rubin]

Stefan Nobis <snobis at gmx.de> writes:
> So why do you think, Common Lisp or Macros are a bad thing? What's the
> difference (from the perspective of understanding) between a function
> foo and a macro bar? Both just transform their inputs. It's just
> another form of abstraction and from time to time really quite
> helpful.

For a long time Scheme had no macros, and Scheme developers who were
exceedingly familiar with Common Lisp were nonetheless willing to get
by without them.  So I have to think macros aren't all THAT important.
Scheme did eventually get macros, but somewhat different from CL's.