There are many good points in this article and even the variety of Common Lisp implementations in existence attest to the author&#x27;s point. It seems that everyone is rolling out their whole new CL implementation.<p>That said, even if it were true that the power of lisp turned out to be it&#x27;s curse, one should be careful to generalize this way about <i>lisp hackers</i>, <i>80% projects</i> and lack of documentation. The language might tempt you to become the hacker portrayed in this article, but it certainly doesn&#x27;t fight you should you want to follow best practices.