To me it seems a lot of the benefit of declarative programming is just that you can use less powerful tools that don't allow constructs you don't want to have t

To me it seems a lot of the benefit of declarative programming is just that you can use less powerful tools that don't allow constructs you don't want to have to deal with . LISP seems great for tinkerers and researchers, but not so much corporate devs who want extreme amounts of consistency and predictability, but don't need the absolute most elegant solution.