[hkolek]

A 2m+ line Java codebase is not desirable or in any way positive. With a Lisp (or Haskell or some other nice functional language) you wouldn't need half the amount of code to achieve the same functionality. Java is especially notorious for its boilerplate. Lisp is very much a language for doing things, at least as much as Java. A big codebase that has been in production for ten years? How about 40+ years? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma

It's your post that reeks of ignorance and gross generalization.

[debacle]

You're trying to give me a 15 year old application and hold it up as a shining example of Lisp engineering, when the most prominent application in that arena (Mathematica) is written in C and Java?

Reddit, too, was once written in Lisp. It was rewritten for a reason.