[aerique]

It is definitely curious. Whenever I mention Common Lisp is my preferred language people start talking to me as if I'm some wizard from another dimension. That, or stupid parenthesis jokes.

It really has an image problem.

I always try to explain that I like Common Lisp because it is an easy and very practical language, but the people I talk to that have no experience in it think it is very hard and impractical. I think the latter is because of university courses where one is not allowed to use the full power of the language.