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"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for t
by DonaldFisk 9y ago
"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."
- Eric Raymond, "How to Become a Hacker"
- thijsvandien 9y agoThe exact same thing can be said about many other subjects, even not related to IT at all. As an example, inspiration for simulated annealing, an ML technique, comes from welding.