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Despite many the successful applications written in Common Lisp, many people complain about it. I’ve been looking around the web seeing what the predominant complaints are. I’ve come up with two lists of complaints: the ones that are about things inherent to Common Lisp that can’t be fixed within the context of Common Lisp, and the ones that could be addressed. With each one, I’ve added some commentary. My comments are not deep; some are downright superficial. And they certainly reflect my own point of view, with which people can quite validly disagree. Comments about future dialects of Lisp are interesting but not in the scope of this essay.