Why don't people like lisp?

[Pascal Costanza]

David Mertz wrote:

> Python does a good job of expressing all the basic
> *programming* constructs that go into ANY programming domain:  loops,
> branches, collections, objects and inheritence, HOFs, declared
> constraints, etc.  I have no expectation of EVER seeing some new problem
> area that isn't built out of these same application parts.

How do you justify your expectation? What's the rationale?


Pascal