Lisp, the sacred language of the now and forever

La lingua sacra ed eterna

I can feel the godforce emanating from it.

You will soon have your God and you will construct it with your own hands.

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I've been reading On Lisp recently and what do I see?

Indeed, this formula of &rest and comma-at will suffice to define an abbreviation for any function^1
1Though the abbreviation can’t be passed to apply or funcall.

And this:

whereas if we had tried to define an abbreviationfor quote using a normal macro,

(defmacro q (obj)
‘(quote ,obj))

it would work in isolation,

(eq ’a (q a))

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but not when nested.

So you can bullshit all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that Lisp is a very bad metaprogramming language and very hard to use correctly. There are all sorts of corner cases that the shitty unannotated text s-exps cannot handle.