What's wrong with Lisp? (WAS: Reply to Ousterhout's...)

["M. Prasad" <prasadm@not4u.polaroid.com>]

Steve Simmons wrote:
> 
> Lisp has suffered (as has UNIX) by being grossly oversold by it's
> proponents.  On close examination, the proponents of both have 

Yes, that's *exactly* the problem with Lisp -- the fanatics
who come with the language.  Many of them who are barely
competent to understand the concepts of Lisp but will go
to war for it.

By contrast, people using normal languages such as
C/C++ can be counted on to give levelheaded
opinions, because C/C++ are just tools.