[wonderzombie]

That's funny. This is one of the reason why I don't care much for Common Lisp. Hashtables in particular are common as mud in programming, but I have to work with a clunky interface specific to each abstraction. Ironically this puts CL closer to Java and C++ than the likes of Python and Ruby.

[lispm]

Hashtables are common, if one does not have other choices.

For many uses of hashtables, lists are just as good.