&gt; Interestingly, for all his insight, Steve Yegge doesn&#x27;t understand why Java is popular and lisp is not.<p>What do you think are the reasons? Some folks might claim that Java enables mediocre teams of mediocre programs to turn out mediocre code, while they would turn out utter dreck in Lisp (we know that excellent programmers will turn out excellent code in Lisp, but there are business and operational risks associated with a small team of excellent programmers), but I don&#x27;t actually know if that&#x27;s true.  Has research been conducted with large teams of mediocre programmers with mediocre management, using Lisp?