Dennis Ritchie loved LISP

I found a pretty neat interview of the 3 creators of C, C++, and Java from the year 2000. http://www.gotw.ca/publications/c_family_interview.htm

When asked if there was a language that was the best for every situation, he replied with a simple 'No, that's silly'. When asked what other languages beside C he likes best, he said he admires languages like LISP. Overall he was very humble and concise.

Why do you dislike Dennis?

Lets see:
All modern architectures                                       | Lisp machine
Assembler is the fastest absolute speed             |Lisp asm will have the fastest execution speed
C compiles to optimized assembler                    |C compiles to Lisp(instead of optimizied assembler)
C outperforms everything,except handcoded asm|C->Lisp->asm is slower than Lisp->asm
Nothing magical