Is Lisp a lie?

I was reading this article, when I had a revelation.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

One assumed it must have been divine intervention, since “there seems to be no other reason for switching to an inferior language.” Another figured something else must be going on: “Could this be…a lie? To throw off competition? It’s not as though Paul Graham hasn’t hinted at this tactic in his essays…” Another chimed in: “I decided it was a prank.” Another suggested the authors simply wanted more “cut corners, hacks, and faked artisanship.”

Pay close attention to this part:

“Could this be…a lie? To throw off competition? It’s not as though Paul Graham hasn’t hinted at this tactic in his essays…”

What if all this stuff about Lisp being more productive is, itself, the big lie?

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But it would be cool if such a thing >>9 existed. A language beyond all languages, something that makes everything else useless and unnecessary, the ultimate Holy Grail of /prog/-ramming.