> Yeah, just like Perl. Or Latin. No one uses them, these are dead languages that belong to a museum. The best analogy I have for Lisp is that it is the wheelb

> Yeah, just like Perl. Or Latin. No one uses them, these are dead languages that belong to a museum. The best analogy I have for Lisp is that it is the wheelbarrow of languages. It was invented long ago and is in no way obsolete. In many ways it achieved a level of mastery of it's use domain that makes it almost impossible to think of a substitute. When you need a wheelbarrow, a dump truck will not do, and neither will a bicycle or automobile. There is a reason for this rather famous quote: "Whoever does not understand LISP, is doomed to reinvent it."