> Compare that to the JavaScript flavor of the hour That's a rather selective and misleading comparison. The Javascript language is over 20 years old. The use

> Compare that to the JavaScript flavor of the hour That's a rather selective and misleading comparison. The Javascript language is over 20 years old. The uses of Javascript you're presumably referring to are mainly in user interfaces, a deceptively challenging problem which hardware companies are notoriously bad at. > Common Lisp is about the only software I would consider declaring long attention span. C is much older than Common Lisp. C++ is about the same age as Common Lisp. But perhaps you're thinking of Lisp in general, including the predecessors to Common Lisp, in which case you should probably also mention Fortran. Looking at other widely used programming languages today, Python is over 25 years old, only about 7 years younger than Common Lisp. Java is also more than 20 years old. All of these languages are still widely used, in many actively used applications that themselves are 20+ years old, in every conceivable application domain. In short, the distinction you're trying to make isn't at all clear.