True, but one very great advantage of Common Lisp is that it’s a (reasonably) well-designed system, borne of the combined experience of many people. It has man

True, but one very great advantage of Common Lisp is that it’s a (reasonably) well-designed system, borne of the combined experience of many people. It has many features which seem like hacks (e.g. optional dynamic scoping) or historical baggage (e.g. dynamic scoping) or like over-engineering (e.g. UPDATE-INSTANCE-FOR-REDEFINED-CLASS), but which are actually the product of sound engineering practice, and which lead to solid, well-engineered code.