Yeah, it's crazy what a well-kept secret Common Lisp is. I keep on running across situations in other languages where Lisp has been sitting on the solution for decades (literally) and yet no-one knows!
Despite how much I like it, it's really not the Platonic ideal of languages: it has its warts, and it could develop even further than it has. But as it stands it's an amazingly good language which could be used for anything from writing operating systems and device drivers to web browsers to text editors to expert systems. I really don't understand why it's not more popular.
