Comment by eadmund

> Lisp is an incredible experience to write and experiment in, unlike any other language I've ever worked in.

I think that the experienced of Smalltalk is very similar in some ways, despite the languages themselves being very different. At the end of the day I prefer Lisp, in large part because I feel that it interoperates with the rest of my system better (I could be wrong — no doubt expert Smalltalkers have figure out solutions to all the issues which annoyed me once upon a time).

They’re both roads not taken. It’s sad, and I think that our industry would be in a much better position had we not wasted decades in the C trap. But history unfolded as it did. Maybe it had to.