I really don't see any difference there. You can write bad code in any language. If you have the organizational discipline to code the way you've described in P

I really don't see any difference there. You can write bad code in any language. If you have the organizational discipline to code the way you've described in Python, why wouldn't that restraint carry over into other languages? Why are macros different? I find typical Python programming to be not particularly disciplined, so if you've overcome the problem in that language you should be fine in a generally more disciplined language like Clojure.