This article claims that Lisp and SmallTalk developers are 10x more productive than developers using mainstream languages, but only in small teams. In other words, these languages don't scale. http://evrl.com/programming/2019/03/28/the-language-conundrum.html …
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But I can see a relationship to Lisp: being superproductive, conservative, high entry barrier, and unpopular, Lisp attracts lone wolves—so our experienced staff therefore had no social structure to fight or survive bad management.
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I don't mean that Lisp was perfect. That's why I spent much time working on tools to improve Lisp modularity: build systems (ASDF, XCVB, Bazelisp), types (asdf-finalizers, quake types), parametric polymorphism (lisp-interface-library), etc. But that was no blocker—as I proved.
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