For some context, http://www.dreamsongs.com/Feyerabend/Feyerabend.html http://www.dreamsongs.com/Feyerabend/Feyerabend.html There is a tone of defeatism here.

For some context, http://www.dreamsongs.com/Feyerabend/Feyerabend.html http://www.dreamsongs.com/Feyerabend/Feyerabend.html There is a tone of defeatism here. As Alan Kay said, Smalltalk and Lisp tend to eat their young. Common Lisp is a testament to how great Lisp is but it's no end game. Alan Kay always said he expected people to make something way, way, way better. And yet no one did for such a long time. Luckily there are some Lisps today that are no longer sitting around twiddling their thumbs.