Why isn't LISP more widely used?
I've heard a lot of people espouse the capabilities of LISP and its omnipotent macros. If LISP is such a great language, why isn't it being adopted more? What problems is LISP facing that is holding it back from (re)emerging as popular language? Is it something about LISP itself ("those brackets!" is a poor answer, IMHO), or its competitors (e.g. the dominance of Java, .NET)?
Why isn't LISP more widely used?
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I've heard a lot of people espouse the capabilities of LISP and its omnipotent macros. If LISP is such a great language, why isn't it being adopted more? What problems is LISP facing that is holding it back from (re)emerging as popular language? Is it something about LISP itself ("those brackets!" is a poor answer, IMHO), or its competitors (e.g. the dominance of Java, .NET)?