I think it's interesting the extent to which lisp is slowly but steadily insinuating itself into people's brains and into new languages.

There are the modern, obvious lisps like Racket and Clojure.

Then there are things like Honu, Pyret, Elixir, and more, which sidestep many people's "parenoia" [sic]. They do the homoiconic, macro thing without any supposedly frightening s-expressions.

Because, as I read this post, I'm thinking, well hell, all of these features [1] are syntactic sugar that already exist in e.g. Racket, and if they didn't, could be added by anyone. Especially anything like "I always wanted this control structure in Python/Ruby/whatever", well, you can just do it. This is really liberating.

Sure you can argue that people will do dumb things with this capability, or that you "don't really need X", and so on. But being able to do it when you need/want is really awesome.

[1] I'm referring to the points in the post, not everything that Elixir and/or Erlang can do.