Hum, personally as an Emacs-er and not a developer Lisp for me is just a nice user-programming tool, a way that allow me to insert and run code for many things

Hum, personally as an Emacs-er and not a developer Lisp for me is just a nice user-programming tool, a way that allow me to insert and run code for many things I need inside notes, running it on click, on a keybind, on file save/open etc that's it's power. With C-like languages I can't do the same, they need compilation, they can't live in a live REPL, even a hello world is many SLoC etc. Unix (CLI) offer shell scripting for small automation, lost it with GUIs, while classical systems (Smalltalk and Lisp based) can perfectly and effectively. If those language for crafting complete OSes are complex and slow I do not care much because the outcome of something like http://augmentingcognition.com/assets/Kay1977.pdf http://augmentingcognition.com/assets/Kay1977.pdf is so powerful that's absolutely worth the effort and seen actual systems that essentially fails to innovate at least since the '80s...