Why don't people like lisp?

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"Rainer Deyke" <rainerd at eldwood.com> writes:

> Joe Marshall wrote:
>>   2.  But the computer shouldn't wait until it can prove you are done
>>       to close the file.
>
> Wrong.  The computer can prove that I am done with the file the moment my
> last reference to the file is gone.  I demand nothing more (or less).

If you don't care about performance, this is trivial.