From: rjones@colby.edu   
      
   Anthony Bucci wrote:   
   >>You are mistaken.  It doesn't have the fad-ish roller-coasters of popularity   
   >>that other languages do.  But it has a solid core of users, developers, and   
   >>vendors that continues through today.   
   >   
   >   
   > I don't think I am mistaken.  I am judging the matter from a different   
   > perspective than you are.   
   >   
   > Admittedly, I went too far calling LISP "dead."  It seems clear it will   
   > never go away completely, for all the good reasons you cite.  But I base   
   > my opinion on three observations:   
   >   
   > i) In my experience, LISP is passed on by AI professors who are now aging   
   >    and retiring;   
   > ii) Younger professors tend not to use LISP;   
   > iii) Many universities do not teach LISP anymore.   
   >   
   > I think what we'll see in the next 20 years is that the diehard LISPers   
   > will retire from universities, most universities will stop teaching LISP,   
   > and the next generation of CS majors will not learn it unless they have   
   > to (which means they won't learn it :).   
      
   I understand there are a few schools that use SCHEME for their   
   introductory programming class.  I would guess that LISP also still   
   appears in many upper-level "programming languages" classes.   
      
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