This is covered in the article.  You might say it&#x27;s the central point of the article - lisp attracts &quot;lone wolf&quot; programmers who want to build perfect abstractions closely mapped to the real-world problem; as opposed to projects that require many man-years of effort run by MBA&#x27;s who want fungible &quot;resources&quot; to do their tiny-bite-sized pieces according to spec.  The philosophy is different.