Sure, in a language where you can't easily extend semantics they have to be baked into the language to be practical. However, with Lisps you can trivially creat

Sure, in a language where you can't easily extend semantics they have to be baked into the language to be practical. However, with Lisps you can trivially create new semantics as you need them, and whenever something becomes cumbersome it can be addressed by the user as the need arises.