Similarly there is lots of source code that we'll never see, some of it Lisp even. What beauties might they contain, especially if someone wrote a Fabien-style

Similarly there is lots of source code that we'll never see, some of it Lisp even. What beauties might they contain, especially if someone wrote a Fabien-style black book to bring forth the interesting bits? The solution is to be sad, in the same way we can be sad about the loss of the library of Alexandria, and move on, creating new works of beauty. As brought up above though, it's very hard to do this in your spare time... Few are lucky enough to hack with CL professionally, and I would wager even fewer still of those are any less free than other companies' employees of business needs coming first and forcing some terrible choices in the development cycle. Still, there can be beauty in the system, and CL is very much a systems-oriented language... (https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Incommensurability.pdf https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Incommensurability.pdf describes it as more of a programming system than a programming language, even.)