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> 1) anecdotal self praise. That a startup (one!) that got acquired used Lisp doesn't prove anything. Many many more succesful startups did not. And its not like it was the most intriguing technologically or acquisition-value wise.

That's not the point. The point was that they had a product that they could improve more rapidly than their competitors; a fact that they readily attribute to it being written in Lisp. Just about any other working Lisp programmer probably has a similar story.

And I do not put forward elisp as a "good" language. It is a Lisp, and the success and longevity of Emacs is a testament to its Lisp underpinnings.