Most of the Common Lisp code that is accessible via public repositories conforms to conventions and is understandable.
Lisp programmers are highly motivated toward encouraging collaboration, since there aren't that many people in Lisp where you can afford to be turning people away toward projects that are easier to get into.
Also, you can easily hire 3 developers and get 3 different languages in, oh, Java or JavaScript. One person is doing Kotlin, another one Scala, ...
Three C++ programmers in the same room could also not understand each other. The greybeard speaking only C++98 with a bit of 2003 doesn't grok the words coming out of the C++20 girl's mouth and so it goes.
Most of the Common Lisp code that is accessible via public repositories conforms to conventions and is understandable.
Lisp programmers are highly motivated toward encouraging collaboration, since there aren't that many people in Lisp where you can afford to be turning people away toward projects that are easier to get into.
Also, you can easily hire 3 developers and get 3 different languages in, oh, Java or JavaScript. One person is doing Kotlin, another one Scala, ...
Three C++ programmers in the same room could also not understand each other. The greybeard speaking only C++98 with a bit of 2003 doesn't grok the words coming out of the C++20 girl's mouth and so it goes.