A lot of people (notably the creator of YCombinator and HackerNews) are arguably "in love with" Lisp. I bet circa 1940's you would say the same thing about bin

A lot of people (notably the creator of YCombinator and HackerNews) are arguably "in love with" Lisp. I bet circa 1940's you would say the same thing about binary, and your question might be "why is X this interested in binary?" Just as binary notation is a very simple notation that underlies all of computing, and has completely changed the world once an enthusiastic group of early adopters figured out how to leverage it, so goes Lisp. The details people haven't gotten quite right yet with Lisp, but once those are straightened out, imo, it will finally go mainstream like binary has.