Lisp is the perfect language for its ex-users and wannabes to wax poetic about. For the rest of us that do it for a living, it just has the least annoyance. I

Lisp is the perfect language for its ex-users and wannabes to wax poetic about. For the rest of us that do it for a living, it just has the least annoyance. I would happily jump ship the moment I get a dynamic, interactive language with CLOS, s-exp notation and some industrial, enterprise-y tools. I hope to see the day when franz and lispworks partner with IBM and Oracle and push Lisp certifications at the masses. Also, For Dummies books! Throw these smug lisp weenies off their pedestal and replace them with armies of impressionable and malleable macro-jockeys.