alt Hacker NewsCarmack once said something along the lines of him not reusing code a lot but rather rewriting it each time.
He is probably not alone, so this "curse" is has never restricted to Lisp completely. There always have been some wood and metal workers besides the many LEGO engineers.
There's also this quote from Knuth, https://web.archive.org/web/20120220134333/http://www.inform... :
"I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for reusable code. To me, “re-editable code” is much, much better than an untouchable black box or toolkit. I could go on and on about this. If you’re totally convinced that reusable code is wonderful, I probably won’t be able to sway you anyway, but you’ll never convince me that reusable code isn’t mostly a menace."