I don't know enough to contribute to this debate, but I found the tone of your comment more distracting than that of the article. (I come from the 'less code is

I don't know enough to contribute to this debate, but I found the tone of your comment more distracting than that of the article. (I come from the 'less code is better' camp in lisp http://github.com/akkartik/wart http://github.com/akkartik/wart, so I have no axe to grind.)