SBCL is great. I use it often. I don't think the proposition that better tech wins passes the laugh test. You could argue that I'm a cynical old curmudgeon, th

SBCL is great. I use it often. I don't think the proposition that better tech wins passes the laugh test. You could argue that I'm a cynical old curmudgeon, though. I've been writing software for a living for thirty years now. It's not about hackers being smart enough to see Lisp's advantages. It's about them (1) being the sort of programmer who prefers programming-as-teaching over programming-as-carpentry, and (2) getting enough exposure to live-programming environments to see what the deal is. The important advantages are not immediately obvious. They're whole system synergies, and it takes time and experience to grasp the nature of stuff like that, regardless of how smart you are. Plus, maybe there are just more carpenters than teachers.