Why Lisp Failed (2010)
I wonder what is the most widely used, popular program, that has been written in Lisp?  Is it Emacs?<p>Every time I sit down to try to learn Lisp, I end up wondering what the hell I&#x27;ll use it for.  Functional programming languages seem to have flipped a bit in my mind that predisposes me to be prejudiced against Lisp .. I find it very hard to do anything actually useful with it, whereas I can pick up c++ or Lua or Python and immediately get something running.<p>I&#x27;m not saying this is Lisps&#x27; fault, but I&#x27;ve been programming for 30 years and have tried many times to become a Lisp programmer.. its just never been effective.