Doesn't answer your question specifically but it's still relevant: Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (2002) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797936

Doesn't answer your question specifically but it's still relevant: Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (2002) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797936)