[willarson]

Sorry, it just seemed a mite too easy. :) Its pretty hard to find a community worse than lisp, but a big part of that is that lisp is at a very different stage of its lifetime than almost any other language out there.

Python/Ruby/Perl/TclTk et al are very young, and tend to be much more friendly (interestingly many feel that the Ruby crowd is getting a bit antsy these days, an acceptable lisp afterall? never). I'm hard pressed to explain why C is still relatively friendly, but I suspect it is in large part because there are many more C programmers, many more new C programmers, and that C finds people, whereas people find Lisp.