Not Lisp again (2009)
The objections the author had way back in the day are no longer the objections programmers of mainstream languages have to Lisp today.<p>Today the objections I hear are more along the lines of:<p>1 - All those parenthesis.  (Still a top objection)<p>2 - Lisp doesn&#x27;t look like or work like what I&#x27;m used to.<p>3 - Lisp doesn&#x27;t have as many libraries as the most popular mainstream programming languages.<p>4 - There aren&#x27;t nearly as many Lisp programmers, so it&#x27;ll be hard to find more to join your project&#x2F;company if you use Lisp.<p>5 - There aren&#x27;t nearly as many Lisp jobs, so why bother learning Lisp if you&#x27;re going to have a hard time finding work using it?<p>6 - Lisp is ancient, and anything that old is useless and primitive compared to new and shiny languages.