I agree with you, but I also still agree with me: Making Delphi or Common Lisp the next hotness is pretty much a lost cause, and has been for a long time. The

I agree with you, but I also still agree with me: Making Delphi or Common Lisp the next hotness is pretty much a lost cause, and has been for a long time. The people using those things tend to be heavily invested in them, and still making money. If you're not making enough money to spend US1.5K on your primary tool then you're not really making money. Most of the people who balk at $1,500 will probably still pick the free option rather than pay $19.99. Even though there are good free options (in the case of common lisp there are multiple good free options), there's still no gaining of traction. So these companies charging money have defined their target market as people already using the language professionally, and they've found a price point that lets them stay in business and provide quality tooling (specialized IDEs, debuggers, GUI frameworks, et al). If they lowered their prices to $19.99, rather than attract loads of new mindshare they'd simply go out of business.