[dlweinreb]

Thank you for the kind words!

I don't think that Brandon Werner said that Lisp was a failure as a language. As I read it, he's saying that Lisp has failed to capture a lot of new users, get very popular, and so on.

I agree with you that a lot of the really big advantages of Lisp show up better in large systems than in small coding exercises.

There have actually been lots of successful products made with Lisp. People just don't say so, sometimes because Lisp is unpopular and sometimes because it's just not important. InspireData is a great product, but there's no need for anyone to know what language it's in: in fact, it's in the LispWorks implementation of Common Lisp.

For links to success stories, see my survey paper at http://common-lisp.net/~dlw/LispSurvey.html and see the "Success Stories" section.