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There's only a few reasons to use Lisp. It's educational from a math/comp-sci aspect, you enjoy programming in it, and you can make money doing so. Career wise, it's way down on the list of languages/environments in which I would choose to do my daily coding. (And I don't currently have my brother-in-law calling me on a weekly basis to assist in automating various tasks in AutoLisp... )

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There are more reasons to use Lisp actually: the biggest one of which is, probably, that many programs become much simpler in it.

But, actually, such argument is meaningless. The only meaningful argument would be to compare the pros and cons of using Lisp versus some other language for a specific field with some specific constraints.

For instance, I won't be trying to use Lisp over JavaScript for writing Firefox plugins, but, probably I would use it over Objective C for this task ;)

If your only source of Lisp exposure is AutoLisp, that would explain the dislike.

AutoLisp is very primitive even when compared with minimalist Scheme interpreters.

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