merits of Lisp vs Python

[Paul Rubin]

Michael Livshin <usenet at cmm.kakpryg.net> writes:
> > Nobody seems to concerned that Haskell lacks macros.  What's up with
> > that?
> 
> Haskell is lazy, so it doesn't need macros (well, it would be more
> accurate to say that by not evaluating function arguments until they
> are needed it makes many of the usual macro usecases moot).
> 
> lazyness has a nontrivial cost, however, both runtime and cognitive.
> 
> hoping he's not answering a rhetorical question,

It's a reasonable answer.  Does SML have a macro system?