Problems with Lisp

In conclusion, I really don't understand what the problem is here.

I think it's just that this:

  (setf (gethash "foo" *hash*) "OH HAI")

is verbose and funny-looking compared to:

  hash["foo"] = "OH HAI"

Note, most of the discussion is taking place on this duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=449345