[igouy]

> To me that reads like gibberish.

Perhaps you could be more charitable in your reading.

> Common Lisp is used in large-scale commercial and industrial applications, why isn't it "as popular as" Java?

Because those large-scale commercial and industrial Smalltalk applications are mid-1990s business-critical legacy systems!

"Over six months in 1996, Smalltalk’s place in the market changed from the enterprise darling COBOL replacement to yet another disappointing tool with a long tail of deployed applications that needed to be maintained. … the commercial Smalltalk vendors were unable to counter the Java hype cycle and development of new Smalltalk-based enterprise applications stopped. "

https://wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914

[cess11]

No, I don't think I can.

You're answering a question I didn't ask, and quotes an article of dubious relevance.