I'm not sure that this is true. Common Lisp shoots for "100% solutions" a lot and it never ends up with the kind of crap that this article describes. This could

I'm not sure that this is true. Common Lisp shoots for "100% solutions" a lot and it never ends up with the kind of crap that this article describes. This could just be a result of the fact that a lot of clunky-looking code can be handed off to macros and a human will never have to see it or touch it.