I'd say you were unlucky, because it's a rather terrible essay and doesn't actually get the diagnosis correct at all; indeed if some of its claims were true, you'd think they would apply just as well to other more popular languages, or rule out existing Lisp systems comprised of millions of lines of code with large teams. The author never even participated in Lisp, and is ignorant of most of Lisp history. I wish it'd stop being circulated.
