I remember when the OP came into the CL community and it was not long after myself, and we both came long after is hey day.

I dare say that not many in the community are from some bygone time.

The fact is CL has by far and away a more sophisticated runtime environment than the vast majority of dynamic languages, with small talk being a stand out exception.

Some of the language aesthetics have not aged well, not talking parenthesis but rather the hideously long symbol names.