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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:29:15 -0500
From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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On 2/17/2011 9:30 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Of course, any feature can be misused.
...
> Back to the point, the big difference is that with macros, you can't
> assume the meaning of something at a given point of text.

There in a nutshell is what all language wars come to:
My favorite language has powerful features which could
be misused, but no one would do that. Your favorite
language has unfortunate features which render all
programs written in it unreliable and incomprehensible.