> My unfettered opinion is that Lisp has not really caught on because it relies on macros to make it useful. Every project invents their own language on top of

> My unfettered opinion is that Lisp has not really caught on because it relies on macros to make it useful. Every project invents their own language on top of Lisp, incompatible with anyone else's. Been saying this for years - this way of programming is powerful for the lone hacker, but lethal for team efforts. I will never forget the guy who ported some weird function evaluation framework from Clojure to a Java app and then left for greener pastures, what he left behind was the gnarliest of mindfucks.