[rahen]

> Basically what he said was that lisp ended up not working well for larger software projects with 5 or more people on them

I don’t think "doesn’t work for teams of 5+" is a fair generalization. There are production Clojure and Emacs (Lisp) codebases with far more contributors than that.

Language adoption is driven less by inherent team-size limits and more by social and practical factors. Some students probably don't like Lisp because most people naturally think in imperative/procedural terms. SCIP was doing a great job teaching functional and symbolic approaches, I wish they hadn't shifted their courses to Python, since that increases the gravitational pull toward cognitive standardization.