If you are interested - even remotely - in programming languages, you must read this piece; it is important. Bill de H�ra delivers a piece where he talks a lot about Lisp, how good it is and how it is the future pinnacle of programming languages, even though it is older than C++. It is also as much about infrastructure, corporate culture and community behavior as languages, and is a very interesting piece. it certainly makes me more curious about Lisp, although I have studied and worked with it in the past and discarded it because it didn't fit into my "easy to learn, easier to master" category. Anyway, blog this piece. it is good stuff, and well worth the read.