I wonder if this says more about Lisp or C.

Interesting, yes. But, did you know, that any C program source code can be written in only one line of code? Sure, it would be one very long line of code, but the newline character isn't necessary in C code.

But newline characters sure improve readability for the programmers and maintainers, so, carry on, 99 lines ain't bad at all really 👍