Why don't people like lisp?

[dan]

Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> wrote in message news:<87ismkcp5d.fsf at bird.agharta.de>...
[yada yada...]
>   "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish
>    thing."
> 
>   (Anatol France)

Did you know that Anatole France had one of the smallest brains on
record?  See for instance:

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=166

search for 'anatole'

Slightly OT I guess, but these threads get boring fast.

ps on the topic -- any language that *requires* bloatware like Emacs
in order to use is already out of the running.  I wrote my first large
Python program in Wordpad.