Because LISP and Smalltalk are still the best programming languages ever made? [1] A dialect Scheme was used in the famous MIT lecture course [2], the video [3

Because LISP and Smalltalk are still the best programming languages ever made? [1] A dialect Scheme was used in the famous MIT lecture course [2], the video [3] and book[4]. Many computer scientist grew up with thinking in LISP. [1] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 "So the problem is—I’ve said this about both Smalltalk and Lisp—they tend to eat their young. What I mean is that both Lisp and Smalltalk are really fabulous vehicles, because they have a meta-system. They have so many ways of dealing with problems that the early-binding languages don’t have, that it’s very, very difficult for people who like Lisp or Smalltalk to imagine anything else." -Alan Kay [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o... [3] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video_galleries/video-lectures/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretati... [4] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp