Perhaps part of it is that you will no longer feel the need for methodologies?<p>When programming lisp, the syntax is so regular that the patterns in your code become very obvious. When I see patterns I pull them out into macros or high-order functions, and name them. (Then sometimes I see patterns in the macros/hofs, and I pull those out and name /them/).<p>I personally /boggle at the guys who love 'design patterns' and the like. I mean, I understand the utility of using patterns in software, I do it all day.<p>The problem is that only having maybe 23 (?) different patterns seems very limiting to me.