Heh, i want to both disagree and agree.

I started with pascal and then C++. And then discovered Emacs and Lisp. Boy, that was a revelation!

Never ever in my life shipped a line of lisp code to production. My real life code was always Python or C++ or Java or C. All of my lisp was toys and emacs tweaks (50k loc in my config!).

But most of production code is gone from my life. I am a mid-level engineering manager now. I mostly write texts, or messages, or emails, or slides... and still use emacs and lisps for fun and profit and competitive programming.

Not a single production-grade lisp LOC in 20+ years. But, OTOH, i contributed to emacs, tinkered with compilers and interpreters and prog. lang. internals - all because Lisps made it interesting for me.

And, in a way, this brought me closer than ever to the job of my dreams: i work for a major player in static analysis space.

So yes, you are right and wrong at the same time.