Well, the best quote by Joel Moses, the father of Macsyma and therefore Maxima, is: APL is like a beautiful diamond - flawless, beautifully symmetrical. But yo

Well, the best quote by Joel Moses, the father of Macsyma and therefore Maxima, is: APL is like a beautiful diamond - flawless, beautifully symmetrical. But you can't add anything to it. If you try to glue on another diamond, you don't get a bigger diamond. Lisp is like a ball of mud. Add more and it's still a ball of mud - it still looks like Lisp. So if your thesis is correct, that shouldn't be an big problem, unless there's something really wrong with the core.