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It's idiomatic to use a sublanguage. Think FORMAT. CLOS. Control flows using the condition system. LOOP is just another style to extend Lisp. There are older libraries which use similar style.

Simple example from Winston&Horn's book LISP for a database query language:

   (db-select screwdrivers with color eql red)