> That article partially validates my idea on why some people think that Lisp is such a force multiplier. The idea would be that compilers are one of the most i

> That article partially validates my idea on why some people think that Lisp is such a force multiplier. The idea would be that compilers are one of the most important tool productivity-wise, and that Lisp allows you write your compilers yourself This is a huge selling point for me personally. lisps allows you to have a solution AND its compiler in lisp, without a need for another language. As far as I know Common Lisp is the only industrial strength dialect of lisp to allow this, and with an unmatched interactive development environment > Shared understanding is important for building and maintaining software. You could also argue that it's important to make programmers more replaceable in a business sense, if i wanted to hire for a large team of 'developers' i would hire for java / python / js. if i wanted to hire for a small team of 'hackers' i would hire for common lisp / haskell