Lisp has a profound effect on the business model because it can give you a dramatic productivity boost (like an order of magnitude or more) but it makes staffing more difficult because there aren't many experienced Lisp programmers because very few organizations use it, which makes for a vicious cycle. But this is precisely the sort of situation that if enough people simply changed their minds that by itself could change the underlying reality.
It's not just Lisp. There's a similar thing happening today with Rust, which is clearly superior to C from a technical point of view, but which very few people use simply because there are very few people using it. But Rust might be one of the rare exceptions where the technical superiority is enough to allow it to break this cycle.
It's not just Lisp. There's a similar thing happening today with Rust, which is clearly superior to C from a technical point of view, but which very few people use simply because there are very few people using it. But Rust might be one of the rare exceptions where the technical superiority is enough to allow it to break this cycle.