He wrote a followup to that post on his site: http://blog.rongarret.info/2008/02/what-are-programming-languages-for.html http://blog.rongarret.info/2008/02/what

He wrote a followup to that post on his site: http://blog.rongarret.info/2008/02/what-are-programming-languages-for.html http://blog.rongarret.info/2008/02/what-are-programming-lang... Main quote addressing your question: "One thing that many people found unsatisfying about my how-I-lost-my-faith posting is that I never really got around to explaining why I lost my faith other than saying that I saw people being productive in other languages. Sorry to disappoint, but that was basically it. What I think needs clarification is exactly what faith I lost. I did not lose faith in Lisp in the sense that it stopped being my favorite programming language. It didn't (notwithstanding that I switched to Python for certain things -- more on that in a moment). What I lost faith in was that Lisp was the best programming language for everyone (and everything), and that the only reason that people didn't use Lisp is that they were basically ignorant. My faith was that once people discovered Lisp then they would flock to it. Some people (hi Kenny!) still believe that. I don't."