I haven't been here in a while now but when Ron shows up in the mainstream that's reason enough. Why Lisp ? Definitely the reasons he points out. I worked at

I haven't been here in a while now but when Ron shows up in the mainstream that's reason enough. Why Lisp ? Definitely the reasons he points out. I worked at a large e-commerce retailer for a few years, one that you might have heard of or even purchased something from. I had the experience of building a few systems in Lisp and also in a few mainstream imperative languages. It was tough and really lonely even though I had real success. With Lisp I could do things that whole teams could only dream of in Blub and in much shorter periods of time. The problems weren't really technical but more psychological and social when it came to Lisp. Big problems. I wasn't very successful in resolving many of them. I still use Lisp here and there but have been drawn to the ML family in the past few years. Strong static type systems got a hold of me for better or worse. All languages suck, it's just the degree that differs.