Paul Graham says Perl is good. Stop saying otherwise.

Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++. The good languages have been those that were designed for their own creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp. – Paul Graham

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You can do a lot with macros. You can do more by creating your own programming language from scratch, but with macros you can bootstrap into another language that's already known and implemented. Macros are just restrictive enough for them to interact with each other in a relatively sane way.