There are all kinds of opinions about this: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ru/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptable-lisp.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ru/2006/04/lisp-

There are all kinds of opinions about this: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ru/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptable-lisp.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ru/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptabl... Yes, it's wonderful that you have the band-aid — or maybe duct tape is a better analogy — certainly you miss them dearly when you're working in other languages. But you don't want to have to build your entire object system with duct tape.