That's definitely a good feature. Other languages have run-time reflection, compile-time macros, mixins, and polymorphism. LISP is great for live audio product

That's definitely a good feature. Other languages have run-time reflection, compile-time macros, mixins, and polymorphism. LISP is great for live audio production because of the homoiconicity. It's very suited for dynamic interactive programming, namely Emacs. I believe that's where the zealousness needs to stop. It's not a good language to code large projects in.