[lolinder]

Are Lisp macros easy to use? My understanding was that Lisp code is notoriously difficult to understand if you didn't write it, largely because of the obscenely powerful macro system that makes it too easy to be too clever. Which is essentially the same complaint that everyone has about every macro system.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

I’ve been working with Common Lisp for about ten years now and I’ve never found that this criticism matches the reality of working on lisp codebases.

[db48x]

It’s possible to do that, but in practice it’s quite uncommon. Especially since Lisps offer great tools for programmers to learn what the macros that the are using actually do.