> I saw an article praising LISP, I decided to chime in with realism because certain fandoms (LISP's included) seem very unaware of the realities of the commerc

> I saw an article praising LISP, I decided to chime in with realism because certain fandoms (LISP's included) seem very unaware of the realities of the commercial programming outside of their niche hobby language. Lisp's detractors often seem equally unaware. I've been using Lisp in a commercial setting for the last ten years. And before that I used it in a research setting for 15 years, and even got Lisp sent into space. It worked great. > LISP is not cutting it for commercial work in general Lisp is rarely tried for commercial work nowadays, in no small measure because people like you keep taking pot shots at it from the side lines. Have ever actually tried using Lisp in a commercial setting? I have. It works great. > > There's no market for it. > You're doing post-hoc rationalization. You don't know that for a fact. Well, I pitched the idea to you and you didn't bite, so there's a data point. Yes, it's possible that there's a huge untapped market for Lisp out there if only it had Erlang-style concurrency. But I'll give you long odds against that being the limiting factor. The limiting factor from where I sit is ignorance and prejudice. > To me it doesn't go all the way however That's fine. But please don't assume that because it doesn't go all the way for you that it can't go all the way for others. Different goals give rise to different requirements.