Wow this starts strong: > Replacing Lisp's beautiful parentheses with dozens of special tools and languages, none powerful enough to conquer the whole software

Wow this starts strong: > Replacing Lisp's beautiful parentheses with dozens of special tools and languages, none powerful enough to conquer the whole software landscape, leads to fragmentation and extra effort from everyone, vendors and developers alike. The automotive field is a case in point. This has been a struggle of mine since day one. Coming from the java world with more formats, tools, IDEs everytime people create a problem was absurd. Lisp was all absorbing.. much reuse on all metalevels.. yet sometimes I believe a bit of "organ"ism is useful.