>>15
>you try and impress people with academic parlor tricks that have no value for common problem solving.
If you don't know how to use the features offered in lisp for practical problem solving, then you are simply not a competent lisp programmer. It isn't hard to find a solution for something in lisp where other languages fall short, although these applications are usually very special purpose and narrow. Nevertheless, they still seem to always come up. But one could argue that lisp always falls short with its syntax and readability.
>>19
All you need is a consistent grammar and the ability to manipulate the syntax tree. So it actually isn't that hard to implement. It might even be easy to use.