How I lost my faith in Lisp (2002)
A few questions for the Lisp fans out there:<p>1. The summary here seems to be &quot;modern high-level languages, used, well, are just as productive as Lisp.&quot; Does that seem right?<p>2. One of the tensions for me in technology is between love of simplicity and love of complexity. An example of the latter is Enterprise Java, where the tendency toward a FactoryProxyBeanMutatorFactoryInterfaceImplementation is well known. Is the perceived superiority of Lisp perhaps because it attracts people with strong simplicity bias?<p>3. Every &quot;Lisp is super-productive&quot; story I hear is about a lone individual. Is Lisp&#x27;s suite spot that of the solo programmer? Since the rise of the Internet, I think most software has shifted to be about teams, and I&#x27;m wondering if Lisp is less suited to team collective ownership or projects where many teams are involved.