Honestly, attempts to pin down Lisp's obscurity to a single cause are almost as old as Lisp itself. No, Lisp did not miss out because people could not read the

Honestly, attempts to pin down Lisp's obscurity to a single cause are almost as old as Lisp itself. No, Lisp did not miss out because people could not read the docs; it simply was as far from XML/Java zeitgeist then as from UNIX/C/C++ before. > Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby followed no standard. It became common for the free implementation to be the standard. And I mean look how well it worked with transitions to Perl 6 and Python 3.