> 1) losing track of the parameters in the stack (unlike Lisp, there are no parens to match and serve as containers) If you're losing parameters in the stack,

> 1) losing track of the parameters in the stack (unlike Lisp, there are no parens to match and serve as containers) If you're losing parameters in the stack, you need to refactor. The whole idea of wrapping things in brackets is what makes Lisp such an unreadable mess. > 2) everything is a number/pointer. If you don't understand why everything is a number or pointer, you don't understand anything about programming languages.