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I have a sense that there are a quite lot more people with Lisp skills than there are jobs. It should be easy to find Lisp people. And I mean reasonably young people; not like pulling Cobol people out of retirement. Lisps continue to attract new people.

lisp is not only feature-cool its even retro-cool :)

i only said lisp repl is superior. far more superior actually. whether its popular is a different matter. there are people perfectly content with subpar technology and thats ok. however it doesnt hurt to know that there are alternatives

R is lispy enough for what they're suggesting.

hardly. look into whats available through slime with common lisp as an example of an advanced repl

I have done, thanks. R has most of what you need to replicate this, and is also a widely used DS language.