Lisp is fascinating but I can't help but wonder:

if it's so perfect and intelligent, why isn't it used for anything? Lisp code in the wild is exceedingly rare.

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Outdated in terms of its features. What you mean is that "outdated" does not apply to languages in terms of legacy code usage and you're right: there's still a bunch of Fortran and Cobol code running just fine which no one is trying to replace. But Lisp does not have even that: in terms of code usage it's neither contemporary nor outdated, more like stillborn.