Everything has been said by Richard Gabriel long ago - Lisp is too good, and &quot;packers&quot; don&#x27;t need or even appreciate refinement and excellence, like most of folks don&#x27;t appreciate beauty of DNA and related machinery.<p>For them PHP or Java are tools for getting shit done. There are huge piles they have produced, like Hadoop or whatever it is.<p>The last great Lisp was ZetaLisp from Symbolics (just read the docs!). Common Lisp is already a bloatware suffered from the kitchen sink syndrome, nevertheless it is way better than anything else (multi-paradigm, mostly functional, strongly-typed (type-safe enough) meta-language that compiles to native code with pattern-matching, OO and other fancies as DSLs).<p>But who cares if one is satisfied with writing<p><pre><code>   RepetitiveStupidityFactory myStupidityFactory = new RepetiriveStupidityFactory;
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for living.