Lazy programmer and why Lisp templates suck

I was reading some random article on Rediff and happened to notice this block shoved in one corner. What caught my eye was the first question - "Are commodity exchanges responsible for price raise of food grains?" - but I got easily distracted by the sheer laziness of the developer who implemented this. Check out the screenshot below:

1 answer(s)
5 answer(s)

I mean for god's sake! On one hand we have people who're trying to teach computers natural language processing, and artificial intelligence; and on the other hand computers can't figure out if was one answer or five answers.

Then I thought, how easy it would be to implement this in ERb:
<%= post.answer_count %> <%= post.answer_count==1 ? "answer" : "answers" %>

And then I got thinking how damn painful it would be to implement this in Lisp and HTML-Template. You'd first have to create a flag for each post indicating whether it had a single or multiple answer. Then you'd have to pass all those flags (or list of flags) down to the template filler function. Then you'd have to put a big TMPL_IF statement in the template to achieve the same thing:
<!-- TMPL_VAR answer-count --> <!-- TMPL_IF single-answer -->answer<!-- TMPL_ELSE -->answers<!-- /TMPL_IF -->
You could of course, for each post, simply compose the exact string to be displayed ("1 answer", "5 answers") and pass that down to the template. But what's the point of having templates if you can't separate view logic cleanly.

Lisp is a great language, which will probably help you achieve a lot of intellectual orgasms (Meta-object protocol, macros, reader macros, etc.) But it sure does need a good templating tool. I tried hacking around in CL-EMB, but it doesn't really cut it.

[End rant]