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Integration is God

In the worse-is-better world, integration is linking your .o files together, freely intercalling functions, and using the same basic data representations. You don't have a foreign loader, you don't coerce types across function-call boundaries, you don't make one language dominant, and you don't make the woes of your implementation technology impact the entire system.

The very best Lisp foreign functionality is simply a joke when faced with the above reality. Every item on the list can be addressed in a Lisp implementation. This is just not the way Lisp implementations have been done in the right thing world.

The virus lives while the complex organism is stillborn. Lisp must adapt, not the other way around. The right thing and 2 shillings will get you a cup of tea.