alt Hacker NewsSo does the community of every other dialect (Common Lisp, at least). Write a function if you don't have to write a macro, and maybe declaim the function to be inlined.
The "Lisp Curse" is a ridiculous and tired myth that can only be invented by people who have looked at the language for 5 seconds and went straight to finding an excuse to not learn it.
Is it? I saw macros and went mad with power. I wrote a macro that could have been a function today.
But seriously, I think Clojure has a particularly strong tradition of writing clean, readable code.