alt Hacker News>This is why Lisp never catches on.
>[…]The same thing happens in other languages with macros (like C and assembler).
Uh, C definitely caught on.
>This is why Lisp never catches on.
>[…]The same thing happens in other languages with macros (like C and assembler).
Uh, C definitely caught on.
Different though. Macros in lisp are built with basic language features. They are a core language feature in fact. Macros in C are not.