Jeff has written the thoughtful: "In defense of newLISP" on his Artful Code blog...
//http://www.artfulcode.net/articles/in-defense-newlisp/
Very well written Jeff :)
Fellow newLISPers can join the defense team on reddit...
//http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/info/6rux8/comments/
Thank you. There are a lot of misconceptions about newLISP and many folks do not give it a fair chance. It has its problems, but so do Scheme and CL.