I would kill for the opportunity to work on Lisp full time (well, maybe not kill, but you get the level of motivation).
The reason for it is in your quote - extremely regular syntax. No operators, no precedence, no special syntax forms - just a bunch of lists with symbols. I didn't realise how important it is until I started writing macros in Elixir and realised they are not quite "native", even if really powerful.
You can use reader macros to add any operators or special forms you want to Common Lisp. Things can get especially crazy if you use a reader-macro to override '(
The reason for it is in your quote - extremely regular syntax. No operators, no precedence, no special syntax forms - just a bunch of lists with symbols. I didn't realise how important it is until I started writing macros in Elixir and realised they are not quite "native", even if really powerful.
Lisp will be back, I feel certain of it.