Flutterby™! : I've recently been seeing hate for the

I've recently been seeing hate for the C preprocessor, and... unless your build system makes it *super* easy to use something like Perl to take a single spec and output the appropriate bindings and introspections and UI things, the lack of a preprocessor means you're probably repeating yourself, and making code harder to maintain.

Or efficiency doesn't matter and everything's completely introspectable in your system. Which is okay, Objective-C is like that, but also weird.