> Software built with tweezers and glue is not robust, no matter how many layers you add. It's terribly fragile, and needs armies of workers constantly fixing its millions of cracks and holes.
Dude, come on. I really don't think anyone who actually worked on a medium to large Lisp codebase would write something like this.
The author of the linked blogpost, Mark Tarver, has spent over a decade developing his own pair of Lisp dialect and symbolic AI system, called "Shen" and "The Logic Lab".
I have no say in the matter but I think it's a matter of crowd and sociology rather than tools. I've seen people go into shock at the first mention of smalltalk. "Message not understood" they said.
These languages are powerful weapons, for some it will allow creating suns, for other it will be a self damaging nuclear meltdown.
Dude, come on. I really don't think anyone who actually worked on a medium to large Lisp codebase would write something like this.