[winestock]

When I wrote this essay, Clojure was beginning to show its chops. You're right, the success of Clojure has made Lisp armchair theorizing obsolete. I'm a little tired of the essay, but I keep it up because I still get e-mails praising me for it (cf. the volunteers who made translations linked at the bottom of the page).

[ktRolster]

I'd have to say that another reason Lisp hasn't taken off is because hygienic macros are a pain to write.....

[fishopart]

I used to think that, but alexandria:with-gensyms is pretty nifty. I think the lesson I learned is that every syntax pain point is a macro waiting to be born.