While Lisp had big, influential ideas, it wasn't at any time the shortest path to getting their immediate task done, for "enough" programmers. The successful l

While Lisp had big, influential ideas, it wasn't at any time the shortest path to getting their immediate task done, for "enough" programmers. The successful languages managed to be the shortest path to "done", for more use cases. (Which makes me think about my project for managing the world's knowledge, http://onemodel.org http://onemodel.org and how to be more practical like fortran or cobol were in their prime, and not primarily idealistic like Lisp in its prime. Hmm.)