And I don&#x27;t think that Walter Bright would necessarily disagree with you.    My interpretation of his &quot;false gods&quot; list is that those are probably OK as secondary goals, but that the &quot;true gods&quot; list should be primary goals.<p>In this case, &quot;easy parsing&quot; is OK, but not when it conflicts with &quot;tried and true&quot;.<p>Choosing Lisp as your &quot;tried and true&quot; is acceptable, though...