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Oh wow, you've found one company that uses Lisp for one application alongside C++ AND Java AND Python. You've completely proven me wrong!
I will grant that 'scalable' was not the right word. I admittedly don't have very much experience with lisp, so I'm not really making a fair comparison, but the language just feels extremely limited and not as powerful as modern languages.
So, let me get this straight. The fact that I was easily able to list a major company that has delivered a large-scale product you may have used yourself (via Orbitz) and is currently working on a reservation system (500,000 LOC, not including libraries — and these are Lisp LOC, not like in C where people write a thousand lines for no particular reason) for Air Canada, counts for nothing against your vague feeling that Common Lisp is limited and not as powerful as “modern languages”. Despite the fact that you, admittedly, have little experience with Lisp.
Did you have some particular power in mind that Lisp lacks?