[10ren]

Maybe that generalizes, to say that it's the code that lisp doesn't turn into "Fungible Cogs", and so it can't be used by others in a standardized way.

Standardization seems to be anathema to the individuals who are attracted to lisp's power and flexibility. If lisp ever achieved code fungibility, lispers would hate it.

[10ren]

6. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis 11:6-7 http://www.omniglot.com/babel/english.htm#kj

[camccann]

And here I thought that was talking about perl...