>>21Common Lisp is like windows, OOP or XML - it's 'good' because it's everywhere and you often simply don't have much choice. it's also a lot like C in that it has a fairly understandable base onto which a lot of crap was added as the requirements and expectations started to change. ubiquity and backwards compatibility are an upside but the downside is the messy architecture, a metric fuckton of obscure symbols and the aforementioned fact you don't actually know what is going on at the hardware level.