Comparing design comming from two different countries with widely different background breaks the analogy upfront.
Lisp and C, Smalltalk, Cobol, Pascal, Ada share the same american background, and were just designed with different audience and purpose.
As diego also points out the Beetle, or even the Golf (though introduced a a year after 1973) didn't change much either in terms of design during decades, though they were targeted and designed for mainstream "average" users.
Even on the language front I'm not convinced.
Java for instance is aimed at average users and I don't see it going away anytime soon.
As diego also points out the Beetle, or even the Golf (though introduced a a year after 1973) didn't change much either in terms of design during decades, though they were targeted and designed for mainstream "average" users.
Even on the language front I'm not convinced. Java for instance is aimed at average users and I don't see it going away anytime soon.