Seven Plus Or Minus Lisp

http://claystuart.blogspot.com/2011/11/seven-plus-or-minus-lisp.html

Here's this blogs thesis: Requiring programmers to keep track of more than five or six non-linear details at the same time will render a programming language more difficult than its competitors and lead to reduced usage.

Programming languages should be designed with this limit in mind and programming cultures should consciously promote it.

Why do you fancy-pants Space Cadet LISPPERS have to go around with your lambda calculi and your functional programming and make ME look bad?

There will be more tablets in the future, a lot of them, and people won't have the bandwidth or patience for huge programs that take forever to download, or pain-in-the-ass programs that require a ton of dependencies to be downloaded just to make them run. Few things are more frustrating than downloading a program only to find that you also have to to download some new version of Java or the correct version of Python or some other run-time environment just to get the damn thing to run. A stand-alone binary (.exe program) is faster and simpler any day of the week.

So, what languages are used for serious development now.
Windows: the main language seems to be C#. The runner-up is C++.
Apple: the main language is Objective-C. The runner-up is C++.
Linux: the main language is C. The runner-up is C++.
Android: the main language is Java. The runner-up is C or C++.
(Note: I define "serious development" as rock solid, enterprise quality software)

http://claystuart.blogspot.com/2012/01/language-of-future-is-c.html