> the other lesson from FP: overly complex abstractions are also very bad Lisp, in its persistent failure to achieve world domination, has been teaching us thi

> the other lesson from FP: overly complex abstractions are also very bad Lisp, in its persistent failure to achieve world domination, has been teaching us this lesson for over 60 years now! Infinitely powerful languages are fun and, yes, powerful. But as soon as the project has more than one or two people in it, they also result in runaway complexity that will hurt the product far more than any gains in expressibility.