Once again, you quote isolated incidents when I'm talking about the entire programming industry. I never said it wouldn't work for some people. It might have b

Once again, you quote isolated incidents when I'm talking about the entire programming industry. I never said it wouldn't work for some people. It might have been Tarver talking about the Lisp curse. Lisp is so powerful that everyone kind of does their own thing while devs of C++ and Java have to band together and make massive libraries. This is a different argument, but I think your discounting the usefulness of some of the gargantuan libraries and frameworks out there. I'm not saying fundamentals aren't good, but a data scientist doesn't need to know about homoiconicity...they need Numpy/Scypy.