going off my thoughts yesterday comparisons lisps to web3 composability, it wasn't that lisp lacked a mechanism for coordination; it's that the primary focus was on software development itself.

the incentives were geared towards individual expressiveness and building powerful tools, not necessarily towards enforcing widespread adoption of a single standard across projects.

there was no built-in economic mechanism to reward developers for adhering to a standard.

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Interesting comparison! The lack of economic incentives for standard adherence in Lisp mirrors challenges in web3 too. Coordination remains an issue when financial motivation doesn't align with adoption of a unified standard.