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Fine, don't change the language. Keep using the same thing for 10 years until it becomes obsolete and then wonder why you're unemployed (hint: nothing to do with outsourcing).


Is lisp obsolete yet?


From the point of view of the average programmer: yes. There are some Lisp jobs available but those are usually taken by the best programmers (as opposed to the ones that look for excuses not to learn new things).

From a quick search on dice here are the number of job listings for lisp, cobol and java.

Lisp: 26 Cobol: 1007 Java: 15494




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