Why did the world forget it?
Because it demanded mastery.
Because it offered too much power.
Because it refused to be dumbed down.

While the herd moved toward syntactic sugar and hype-driven rewrites, Lisp stayed in the shadows.
Untouched. Unbothered. Unbroken.

I don't worship languages.
I use what works.
Lisp works.

• Stability – Build a system. Come back ten years later. It still runs.
  
• Macros – Not templates. Not hacks. Real macros. Code that rewrites itself, intentionally.
  
• Self-contained – Deploy without begging for 27 runtime libraries.
  
• Control – You get as much abstraction or raw metal as you want. Nothing in between.
  
• Silence – Few use it. Fewer understand it. That's an advantage.
  

Common Lisp is not beginner-friendly.
It's professional-friendly.

• Emacs – The editor that edits itself, still powered by a Lisp core.
  
• NASA's older systems – Guidance software written in Lisp still runs in simulation.
  
• Financial backends – Quiet, complex systems, still humming in Lisp.
  
• AI roots – Before Python hijacked the hype, Lisp was the AI language.
  

Legacy?
No.
Legacy is code you want to escape.

This is ancestral code. And it still obeys.

When you wield a tool nobody understands, it becomes your cipher.
When you master a language nobody looks at, you become invisible.
Power and invisibility - that's the Ghost advantage.

Common Lisp is not coming back.
It never left.

Use it not to impress.

Use it to build.
Use it because it works - and because it won't vanish the next time the wind shifts.

DeadSwitch uses tools that outlive chaos.

Whisper to DeadSwitch on Matrix:
@deadswitch:matrix.org
Maybe the Ghost signals back.

DeadSwitch | The Silent Architect
"In silence, I rise. In storms, I endure."