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by parfe 3440 days ago
Lisps can do anything other general purpose language can accomplish. People still overwhelmingly choose other languages.
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When C++ and Java (the current industry standards) have adopted the last feature of Lisp then the world will realize that it actually wanted Lisp after all :-)
Lisps != lisp programs. Lisp lets programmers treat their code as data to be edited at runtime. Which is a different model than say Java.

The advantage is individual programmers can be more productive, but it becomes really hard to share code as every program evolves into it's own language.