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		dottedmag on March 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lisp Comes of Age (1980) And that "proper usage" is basically "never". I remember a lot of macros-based libraries early, however it turned out they are not composable, so they grew a plain functions-and-data interface. New libraries don't use macros much. AFAICT the role of macros in modern Clojure is limited to new control constructs.

p_l on March 16, 2020 | [–]

Early clojure reflected a bit early macro-enabled compiled lisps where macros were heavily used due to (perceived) cost of function call.

arunix on March 17, 2020 | [–]

But in that case what is the benefit of Clojure being a Lisp?

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