Forth programmers tend to chew their code into little digestible nuggets of seven words or less. Meanwhile in Lisp many of us (myself included) still tend to favor the Massive Wall O' Code approach, making us look like third-rate VB programmers in the process.
We have compilers that can open code (inline in C parlance) the subroutines that handle the fiddly bits in your big routine. No reason why these shouldn't be factored out in the name of clarity.
Forth programmers tend to chew their code into little digestible nuggets of seven words or less. Meanwhile in Lisp many of us (myself included) still tend to favor the Massive Wall O' Code approach, making us look like third-rate VB programmers in the process.
We have compilers that can open code (inline in C parlance) the subroutines that handle the fiddly bits in your big routine. No reason why these shouldn't be factored out in the name of clarity.