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Also, this is a very interesting article on why lisp is unsuccessful in the "read world": http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

I like the original article a lot, but what it failed to do for me is convince me why someone like me, a typical programmer, would want to choose Lisp over Python/Ruby/etc to solve a real world problem. Both Ruby and Python have powerful meta-programming abilities built into them. Lisp should be compared with these, not with C.

I still think that functional programming is extremely interesting (I'm in the long process of learning Haskell myself) and is useful is certain real world cases, but I was not convinced by this article. All the problems there are easily solved in modern and dynamic languages.