&gt;<i>LOL. As long as many people believe things like that, innovators can go out, learn new tools that will give them 10x more productivity and be able to make better things faster, delivering more business value.</i><p>LOL. These &quot;Innovators&quot; are just reinventing the square wheel, only in &quot;webscale&quot; mode.<p>We had all these tools and novelties (including &quot;nosql&quot;) back in the 70s and 80s (and part of the 90s), they sucked, we dropped them.<p>Seems people haven&#x27;t even learned enough from the early Mongo craze which ended up with tons of teams finding out Postgres is still faster, safer AND more feature full.<p>&gt;<i>&quot;But I don&#x27;t expect to convince anyone (over 25) to go out and learn Lisp. The purpose of this article is not to change anyone&#x27;s mind, but to reassure people already interested in using Lisp-- people who know that Lisp is a powerful language, but worry because it isn&#x27;t widely used. In a competitive situation, that&#x27;s an advantage. Lisp&#x27;s power is multiplied by the fact that your competitors don&#x27;t get it.&quot;</i><p>Only the LISP in this situation is SQL -- not those &quot;10x innovations&quot;.