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by Banana699 1407 days ago
The only thing lisp seems to have not figured out yet is this small thing we call "Syntax", which the PL community mostly figured out 50 years ago : you write terse notations and the compiler builds up the tree for you, you don't layout the syntax tree yourself.

Lisp also seems to have a shortage of knowledgeable advocates who understands other programming languages enough to know that not everything is or needs to be a lisp.