> As a Racket programmer, I almost never think about macros, readers, code transformers, or whatever could interfere with what I think should happen in the same way that I would write Java code.
This is exactly what I mean, Racket is not a nice language because it has a minimal syntax, it is a nice language because it is powerful, well thought, and its features work well together. Homoiconicity and macros are tools that Racket uses internally to define itself and they are essential to how many of the language features work, but often they are not directly relevant to the (non-library-writing) user.
This is exactly what I mean, Racket is not a nice language because it has a minimal syntax, it is a nice language because it is powerful, well thought, and its features work well together. Homoiconicity and macros are tools that Racket uses internally to define itself and they are essential to how many of the language features work, but often they are not directly relevant to the (non-library-writing) user.