> My point is just that in any modern language at a reasonable level of granularity, the order in which you write the code is 99% independent from the order in which you execute it.

I believe that in most dialects of lisp, macros must be defined before they can be called. [citation needed]

This is not to undermine your point, which I think is valid. Macros would just be an interesting exception because they're arguably the feature of lisp, and surely make up > 1% usage for that family of programming languages.