[lisper]

> you cannot ever marshal an army of cheap Lisp programmers

That may be, but since Lisp programmers are easily 10x as productive as ordinary mortals you can pay them, say, 5x as much and still get a pretty good ROI.

> you can't just hire any idiot

Yeah, well, if you think hiring any idiot is a winning strategy, far be it for me to stand in your way.

[oalae5niMiel7qu]

I don't think it's a winning strategy, but I'm in no position to make hiring or programming-language decisions, and I don't have the market insight that would be required to start my own company.