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The problem with almost all of the commenters is that they are looking at what is instead of what could be. Think of the vapor Longhorn as an example. Really, the only reason to say Longhorn is because so few people would know what I was talking about if I said Lisp Machine, or Xerox Dorado. Now Longhorn's no Dorado or Lispm, but its moving in that general direction, which is more than you can say for anybody else.

You can get that now, in any of the Smalltalk systems out there, and - although I don't have any personal experience with them - I'd warrant that you can get it in any of the existing Lisp development environments as well. It's a sad thing that so many people seem to know that they could be more productive, and then just blithely turn away from it and stick with what's popular.