I have used Common Lisp for many years at about the same time as you, as well as some other Lisps. And I also had to go away, because in the real world I was no

I have used Common Lisp for many years at about the same time as you, as well as some other Lisps. And I also had to go away, because in the real world I was not always the one who chose the language. About the "top end of the power spectrum", after discovering the array languages (of which for me APL is the one that clicks), I have come to believe that they are at the top end, higher than the lisps. I was disappointed when I found out that those languages existed before I was born, that I studied CS and thought I knew about all the programming paradigms, but I had still missed those.