Lisp has existed more than 50 years, more than most programming languages.
If it were a good programming language people would be using it more at this point.
If it were a good programming language people would be using it more at this point.
Da fuk you're even talking about? People ARE using Lisp dialects. The biggest digital bank in the world runs on Lisp. The oldest known text manipulation system is built on Lisp. Have you ever checked GitHub language stats to see where Elisp stands? Apple, Cisco, Netflix, Amazon, even NASA - they all use Lisp. It works for them. What do you mean "more"? Just because McDonald's is the most popular restaurant in the world, it doesn't make it Michelin star worthy.
> Lisp has existed more than 50 years
Exactly! Pascal, COBOL, Fortran, Ada, Smalltalk, Prolog, Perl, Delphi, VB, ActionScript, ColdFusion, dBase/Clipper - these all were quite popular at some point in time. When was the last time have you've seen any discussion here or anywhere else on e.g. Ada? I just performed HN search directly from the Lisp-based Emacs, last story on Lisp was posted two hours ago. Before that - 18hrs ago, and then 22hrs - there's Lisp-themed post every single day.
Are you effing blind or something? What "more" of are you demanding here?
this applies even to programmers.