> if people think this is so magic, it's almost as if lisps, schemes, and prologs never existed. I write quite a bit of Lisp, and the conclusion I've come to i

> if people think this is so magic, it's almost as if lisps, schemes, and prologs never existed. I write quite a bit of Lisp, and the conclusion I've come to is that for 95% of software developers, Lisp, Scheme, and Prolog might as well not exist. Even here on HN, where I'd expect the bar to be a little higher, the amount of incorrect info posted about Lisp is pretty crazy. I'm almost certain most people's only experience with Lisp(s) and Prolog was a week or two using it in their programming languages class at university.