Lisp in the news, again...

In the last post, I didn't say what article in SD Magazine it was that talked about Lisp.
 
It was in the April 2004 issue of SD Magazine,  a current  events article, we find this statement:  

Wu [Sheng-Chuan Wu, Franz's Vice President of corporate development] says, "People say 'Java is the gateway to the Internet.' We say 'Java is the gateway to hell.' Lisp is just a better alternative to the intelligent Internet..."

The auther recounts various applications that use Lisp. The closes with this:

Clearly, it's time to take another look at Lisp. And, if anyone thinks that there are no new frontiers that can generate dynasties like Microsoft, just listen to what Bill Gates advised computer science majors at MIT early this year in a question-answer session: 'If you invent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence so machines can learn, that [will be] worth 10 Microsofts.'

Surprisingly, when I searched for this April article, another Lisp reference popped up in the May 2004 article "A Little Goes a Long Way." In this article the author discusses "tags" a new feature implimented in the Tiger version of Java (1.5).   Also known as annotation, or attributes in C#, these apparently act something like Lisp's macro feature.
 
Go figure. More features from Lisp being hijacked by other language.
 
And people wonder why I want to learn this lanuage.