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But who's to say your experience with a given subject domain does not expand your intuition and creates new models of understanding?

btw, if object is not null is closer to (nil? object) than to (list '1 '2 'foo)

lisp may not be simpler, it is more powerful. it is a distillation of the ideas that gave rise to computer languages.

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I don't doubt that learning lisp makes you better. But the argument is about if Lisp is the next big thing. My argument is that it is not because people have to learn new things, and they don't want to. They will only want to if there are concrete advantages to it (make a website in 3 hours), and not because of a more abstract result like 'expand your intuition'.

Lisp is likely more powerful, but it is unlikely to become very popular in the form it currently exists in.

sure. but i only put forward the 'expand your intuition" argument as a rebuttal to your "models of understanding". i am saying though that the very same concepts that gave rise to lisp, also make it more powerful in practice. "in the field" as they say. but it takes a little practice to get there.

yes, lisp won't ever be more popular. just like "30 Rock" won't ever be more popular than "the office"

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