> My assertion is that you're looking at the wrong decade for C's network effects. You should be looking at the PDP-11 decade, not the PC decade. And in the PDP-11 decade, I believe there was much wider awareness of Lisp.

This is the crux of it I think, and unfortunately my flashlight isn't bright enough to get much further. I was born in 1981, so this is all reconstruction for me. Unfortunately, the people who were there are getting scarce. Anyway, thanks for talking it through with me!