Yes, that is a totally fair point. But Linux is where it is today because some people in 1992 looked at Linux in the state it was in at the time and decided th

Yes, that is a totally fair point. But Linux is where it is today because some people in 1992 looked at Linux in the state it was in at the time and decided that it had potential. If that hadn't happened, no one outside of a small group of hackers would ever have heard of Linux. The idea that embedding languages in CL is a bad idea is likewise a self-fulfilling prophecy.