Although the reasons given for the rejection of these earlier, elegant languages may appear to contemporary programmers to surpass rational understanding, there were some common themes we can mention....

Although the reasons given for the rejection of these earlier, elegant languages may appear to contemporary programmers to surpass rational understanding, there were some common themes we can mention. Many programmers, particularly those trained on languages like Basic, C, or Fortran, found their Lisp-like syntax odd. Other programmers expressed concern at potential inefficiencies introduced by the interpreted nature of these languages, their implementation linked to dynamic binding, and the limitations of their approach to automatic garbage collection.