> The real question is if Lisp is so powerful, if it's such a great language, and it lets you do so much, why isn't it more popular? It's not about the parentheses. [...] A lot of it is the market forces, if you will.
As we have suggested before, we do want a Lisp operating system, but the special machines are less necessary with clever compilation strategies today; [blame your ancestry and the market.]
They think they have done a lot, way more enough than have to break out of the cage, to unlease the full power of lisp, to build an environment (os and/or hardware) where Lispers engage in more collaboration, processes are lambdas, memory management is done more elegantly&securely and then everyone uses better naming convention & make decent documentation (for the system core at the very least), avoids deep nested code blocks w/o comments like a plague and remembers to include the test suites certainly needed by a community. And God some become Clojurists then defect to the JVM!