That's why nobody uses Lisp machines today, but Lisp is somewhat orthogonal. It's true that the death of the Lisp machine economy hurt Lisp more than the end of

That's why nobody uses Lisp machines today, but Lisp is somewhat orthogonal. It's true that the death of the Lisp machine economy hurt Lisp more than the end of the FGCS hurt Prolog. BUT this was happening long before the winter hit. > This visualization of relative programming language popularity shows Lisp was the 3rd most popular general purpose language Which is fine, and makes sense. But I'm addressing a claim about Lisp being "the Language" for the era of symbolic AI. Which is decidedly not high volume, nor is it general at all, it's really quite specific. I'm correcting it, because I know Americans are heavily culturally silo'd on this, and symbolic AI is especially esoteric. Most people probably can't name a single commercial expert system off the top of their head, and that's not unreasonable. Our cultural view of symbolic AI is rife with American exceptionalism (I theorize partially because of government involvement) that just doesn't track with reality. Speaking as an American.