>Than you program some more and, if you're smart, you realize there's Common Lisp.
And then you realize, oh, it was just "premature realisation", actually Common Lisp is not the one "to rule them all" after all.
E.g it's useless for most embedded work, a non started on the web client side, you cannot find many programmers to hire for your project, a lot of self proclaimed Lisp programmers are just dabblers, there are not enough available libs for lots of fields (, scientific computing, GUI, multimedia etc), and a thousand other reasons.
Oh, and no killer app was been made in Common Lisp, or any Lisp for that matter, with the exception of Emacs (but that one is targeted to developers anyway). In fact, the most famous example of Lisp "success" is a mid-nineties startup that was sold to Yahoo.
The language was introduced in AutoCAD Version 2.18 in January 1986, and continued to be enhanced in successive releases up to Release 13 in February 1995.
_After that, its development was neglected by Autodesk in favor of more fashionable development environments like VBA, .NET and ObjectARX. However, it has remained AutoCAD's primary user customization language._
And then you realize, oh, it was just "premature realisation", actually Common Lisp is not the one "to rule them all" after all.
E.g it's useless for most embedded work, a non started on the web client side, you cannot find many programmers to hire for your project, a lot of self proclaimed Lisp programmers are just dabblers, there are not enough available libs for lots of fields (, scientific computing, GUI, multimedia etc), and a thousand other reasons.
Oh, and no killer app was been made in Common Lisp, or any Lisp for that matter, with the exception of Emacs (but that one is targeted to developers anyway). In fact, the most famous example of Lisp "success" is a mid-nineties startup that was sold to Yahoo.