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Ok, so lisp hardware was overtaken by Moores law. What about Lisp software?

April 26, 2017hardware Law LISP moore Ok overtaken Software

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Ok, so lisp hardware was overtaken by Moores law. What about Lisp software?

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A lot of features of the Lisp machine environment have become completely standard (windows, networks. virtual memory) and a lot of features of Lisp as a programming language have become standard features of modern programming languages (objects, garbage collection). – but Lisp itself has reverted to a niche used for research. Why? Lisp never developed a good way to deliver small, modular programs. Lisp supports and encourages building monolithic, tightly coupled environments, containing lots of closely coupled modules. The standard unit of deliverable lisp program is called a world, and that is not an accident! When PCs won the hardware wars, they saw no need to adopt the monolithic environment or spaghetti coding style of Lisp machines, but they have been busy reinventing it.