Maybe I'm not making myself clear. I realize you can in principle debug everything, know the state of the machine completely, etc. What I am trying to point o

Maybe I'm not making myself clear. I realize you can in principle debug everything, know the state of the machine completely, etc. What I am trying to point out is that it is too much information to handle at that level of detail. It doesn't matter if it's written in Lisp or Swahili. And the fact remains that even if you convinced 90% of the next generation of programmers to use Lisp, you still have 50 years of legacy code lying around in other langauges. These are practical facts that can't be washed away with a new (or old) programming paradigm.