It didn't feel needless when I wrote it. The lisp community was sitting on their haunches (their laurels had long rotted away), and silly new languages were st

It didn't feel needless when I wrote it. The lisp community was sitting on their haunches (their laurels had long rotted away), and silly new languages were stealing lisp's thunder. Today, I would probably have written about how clojure will soon be "killing" python, so maybe I'm just a soapboxer.