[magicmouse]

Scala and Perl are even worse, i agree with you there. Some people love Haskell too, but i think it's awful.

MIT has replaced Lisp with Python, because even though they pushed forced it upon their students for decades they had to admit Lisp was archaic and not particularly readable. The Pharo IDE is arguably the most sophisticated IDE around today, but the fact remains that Lisp doesn't permit easy interchangeable parts, which is a major goal of the new programming languages being developed. Although very bright people can get very good at Lisp, the average person finds it extremely hard. Remember you are reading it from the inside-out which is highly unnatural to someone who reads books which read left-to-right.