Comment by lkesteloot

"The solution is for the people who use these tools to become mindful of these dangers, not to get rid of the tools."

Sure, but after 55 years of Lisp, that hasn't happened. If Lisp is unused because programmers find it hard to resist using a feature anti-socially, then it's time to change that feature.

Of course I have no hope that Lisp will change its macro feature. My interest is in making sure that new language designers realize that Lisp's so-called perfection is the very reason that it languishes.