>Lisp and ML are competing by nature(MLs are famous from their typesystems) and their "failure" is not because of unix, but because of their inability to delive

>Lisp and ML are competing by nature(MLs are famous from their typesystems) and their "failure" is not because of unix, but because of their inability to deliver 'fast' & readable apps. ?! Lisp under SBCL is as fast as Java under the latest Oracle JVM and for numeric computation is sometimes as fast as Fortran. This means at least 10-20x faster than CPython, Ruby's MRI and others. I routinely read third-party Lisp libraries and they are very readable, no problems with that.