An excellent point about lisps. I've long thought that one of the core issues with lisps is that logic is tree based, where a large majority human brains are fa

An excellent point about lisps. I've long thought that one of the core issues with lisps is that logic is tree based, where a large majority human brains are far more amenable to linear process. I suspect there's un-recognized cognitive overhead in the branching of trees versus linear with early return.