"Same can be said for (Common) Lisp, which still live its half-life in form of Clojure, but is far away from the mainstream." He says, on site written in Lisp,

"Same can be said for (Common) Lisp, which still live its half-life in form of Clojure, but is far away from the mainstream." He says, on site written in Lisp, siting a language that proves the invalidity of his own statement. For what its worth, while Lisp has never been a language with a big following in commercial development due to its focus on exploratory programming rather the delivering a "finished product", it's user base has actually been growing in the last 20 years or so.