Your bigger point -- that Lisp is bad at public relations -- is probably true. I do have to admit I like the look of interacting with the Lisp interpreter wher

Your bigger point -- that Lisp is bad at public relations -- is probably true. I do have to admit I like the look of interacting with the Lisp interpreter where my commands are in all lower case, and the responses is in all upper case. I may be part of the problem.