Yeah, absolutely; wasn't criticizing the choice of FreeBSD more generally (short of elegant maybe, but the only real UNIX systems available these days are illumos and xv6, and they're short of elegant, too), just thought it odd for that specific use case.
Thanks for answering! That's really interesting about clisp; I've always found it a more comfortable interactive environment than any other Common Lisp, but it definitely sacrifices portability for comfort in more ways than one (lots of symbols out of the box that aren't in the HyperSpec or any other implementation, too, for example). I'm now really thankful I've never been tempted to look to its source!
