> As long as you understand the code and it solves your problem, owning is an advantage Because the cost of acquiring an understanding of code that solves your

> As long as you understand the code and it solves your problem, owning is an advantage Because the cost of acquiring an understanding of code that solves your problem might be much higher in Lisp than other languages, if the hypothesis is correct that the language facilitates the creation of bad half-baked libraries. Just to give a somewhat figurative example, the jungle is a much more hospital environment for life in general than temperate environments (it's warmer, full of nutrients, bathed in constant solar energy). However most humans didn't manage to really expand into the jungles successfully until the advent of modern medicine, because the life there was so prolific that there were all sorts of nasty parasites and diseases, and everything you build sinks into the jungle within years. Lisp is like that jungle -- everything just grows fantastically easily, but paradoxically that makes it harder to separate the chaff from the wheat.