Why do you think it's a circlejerk? I'm yet to see an idea in the domain of PLs that's as effective as lisp (dependent types come close). Lisp is a whole packag

Why do you think it's a circlejerk? I'm yet to see an idea in the domain of PLs that's as effective as lisp (dependent types come close). Lisp is a whole package, it solves bunch of problems very elegantly. All "good" languages solve problems one by one by introducing exceptions and rules and features whereas lisp did it by introducing a totally novel, elegant concept. It's hard not to be mystified by lisp. I'm not an old school hacker, but there is certainly something fascinating about lisp.