[tpoacher]

I hear your quote, but it's only a quote.

A macro is effectively preprocessing facilitated by the language. You could always preprosess externally if you wanted, and there's nothing stopping you from doing that in the "Powerful Language (TM)" either.

Now whether people use macros and preprocessing usefully is another question, but not one to which the answer is "abolish macros for more language features". When used correctly, macros ARE power.