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It's notoriously difficult to co-ordinate individualists (SmartDisorganizedIndividuals)
The Lisp Curse suggests that LispLanguage hackers don't get their act together to produce AGoodIDE (somewhere between original LispMachine and SmallTalk environments.
The reason why this doesn't happen is because of the Lisp Curse. Large numbers of Lisp hackers would have to cooperate with each other. Look more closely: Large numbers of the kind of people who become Lisp hackers would have to cooperate with each other. And they would have to cooperate with each other on a design which was not already a given from the beginning. And there wouldn't be any external discipline, such as a venture capitalist or other corporate master, to keep them on track.
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