[garethrowlands]

I really like On Lisp's message of building large things from small things. But when I read it these days it feels dated. The examples in the first part of the book are things that you'd expect in your standard library these days and the rest of the book solves problems you can import a library for. Macros can be simple solutions to problems that would otherwise be difficult. But the first section of the book mostly makes macros for things we'd use a higher order function for these days.