http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
Some of you might have seen this. Here's the short version:
Lisp is so powerful that it discourages reuse. Why search for and
reuse an existing implementation, when it's so trivially easy to
reimplement exactly what you want yourself? The net result is a maze of
incompatible libraries which each solve a different 80% of the same problem.
To all the people who look at Hackage, see that there are 6 different
libraries for processing Unicode text files, and claim that this is
somehow a *good* thing, I offer the above essay as a counter-example.
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