Everybody says that. Everybody believes it. And everybody goes to town making a rat's nest with macros, just like that snarl of cables under my desk that resist all attempts to make it nice.

Myself included. I've even written an article about clever C macros. Look, ma! I was so proud of myself.

But then I got older. I started replacing the macros in my C code with regular code. It turns out they weren't that necessary at all. I liked the C code a lot better when it didn't have a single # in it other than #include.