A better question is when most of the programmers will have the ability to understand and use lisp, that is all that it takes, libraries, popularity will come w

A better question is when most of the programmers will have the ability to understand and use lisp, that is all that it takes, libraries, popularity will come with this. Now most programmers can't grasp lisp, some can't stand the parentheses, is something so alien to them, but few that can see beyond the skin and can understand it realize that is superior but then fail to really use it because they are a minority and the lisp community is to small to build all those libraries needed to make lisp popular. And I think this is because we are used to english looking languages and all the learning is done with "easier" non functional languages.