Lisp is for Weak Programmers

I love Lisp, and my Symta, as they allows me to quickly try a lot of design ideas. That is because I have a weak brain, making harder for me to plan and try them mentally, without prototype.

But most programmers are just too smart and can prototype directly inside their brains, so when they start typing, they already know exactly what they want. Good programmers can compile code on fly inside their brains and produce assembly - it will be a lot of typing and debugging some segfaults, but they will be implementing final idea anyway.

Take Unis for example, it was conceived in a few moments, while author designed a video game, and since then Unix design is almost unchanged for decades.

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The point is that programmer starts looking for a new language, when his current is too complicated for him. I.e. programmer tries reading C/C++ code and finds that lex/yacc grammars are just too complex to work with easily - parsing curly-brace languages is a science in itself, so programmer finds Lisp, which is uber simple and now the problem of parsing is gone, he can use included READ function to do everything. But he is a weak programmer, because he got scared by complexities, instead of fighting them like a man. I've seen good programmers quickly writing C and even C++ parser with almost no effort and errors. Others parse C/C++ with Perl scripts, but I find Perl even harder than C++, because Perl is enormous.