Lisp is the second oldest high level language, having barely been pipped by FORTRAN... and it's still around, and under active development. Long way from a fail

Lisp is the second oldest high level language, having barely been pipped by FORTRAN... and it's still around, and under active development. Long way from a failure. Equally, with that kind of a trajectory and history, you'd also have to predict Lisp isn't going anywhere soon. If anything, the rising interest and competition in functional languages is pushing Lisp back into the spotlight.