@mapcar @nsrahmad @simon_brooke @praetor
Common Lisp certainly has numerous warts -- think that it is unavoidable at certain size. That said I think that it is a very practical language -- not in a sense that it is packed with features, but because these features are orthogonal and useful.
This and the fact, that the language does not impose opinions on how your program should be designed, is a quality rarely found on languages that know the one true way of programming.