I'll agree that the ideas and power of Lisps have caught on and are even pervasive. Just that "thinking in Lisp" is what I believe has held it back.
I have fond memories of a number of editors: VIM, EMACS, VEdit, and KEdit (Rexx scripting). When the mouse centric editors appeared on the scenes I found they worked better for me. As someone who has coded in Lisp, Forth, C, etc. and in a wide variety of editors I guess our experiences differ.
> I have fond memories of a number of editors: VIM, EMACS ... When the mouse centric editors appeared on the scenes
End 70s on the Lisp Machine (had a megapixel bitmap screen, mouse and GUI) with the Zmacs editor. The second Emacs ever written and the first one written in Lisp.
I have fond memories of a number of editors: VIM, EMACS, VEdit, and KEdit (Rexx scripting). When the mouse centric editors appeared on the scenes I found they worked better for me. As someone who has coded in Lisp, Forth, C, etc. and in a wide variety of editors I guess our experiences differ.