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He means he once read an article written by a web developer with no Lisp development experience called "The Lisp Curse", and that's his entire Lisp development experience.

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He means it's hard to do Java(script)

Right, yeah, seems likely. Such comparisons are usually pretty weird, putting non-hygienic macros against ordinary programming in some other language, rather than macros against the metaprogramming used there.

Experience with macros and their footguns arguably prepared me pretty well for using JAXB and reflection professionally.

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