Starting with C, we almost achieved what lisp can do in a few thousand lines of code in, what, 20 years. I don't consider this a success, especially since C++ s

Starting with C, we almost achieved what lisp can do in a few thousand lines of code in, what, 20 years. I don't consider this a success, especially since C++ standard is now one of the longest, subtlest technical documents in the industry. We created a monster.