Another way to put it is that people don't learn lisp because it is never the local maxiumum, the nearest, easiest hill to climb. That's probably true, but alwa

Another way to put it is that people don't learn lisp because it is never the local maxiumum, the nearest, easiest hill to climb. That's probably true, but always settling for local maximums has bad consequences over the long term. Periodically you should invest in figuring out how to do things better overall.