> ask them how big the team was they were working What team today is bigger than 10 developer? Where I work dev teams are between 4 to 12 devs at max, most co

> ask them how big the team was they were working What team today is bigger than 10 developer? Where I work dev teams are between 4 to 12 devs at max, most common around 7-8 developers. So you really don't need a language to support more than that, and if LISP or Smalltalk lets you be faster at that scale it's perfect.