Thank you - sadly it is the fact I get older that I see these truths. Sadly less people listen :)
Even in my own profession, software engineering, I still here phrases like, this is the ultimate solution. They said that about LISP in the 50s. :) Funny thing in a broad sense LISP is not much different than client side languages like Java. Run time compilation.
Yes, LISP was the AI language, but even with linking we still have no real AI.