Spent last night reading Practical Common Lisp, stopped at chapter 3. Found chapter 2, creating a simple database with Lisp, quite exhilarating as I was taken from Hello World right up to defining macros, with simple (albeit contrived) examples of how they could help with code compression. I’ve always been kinda confused by their inner workings, but Peter Seibel’s explanation of explanation of how macros worked almost made sense to me, although that could be just due to the late hour.