"If only Paul Graham could have been writing 10 years ago instead of starting a company ;)" Seriously... When I used Lisp in college I remember thinking that

"If only Paul Graham could have been writing 10 years ago instead of starting a company ;)" Seriously... When I used Lisp in college I remember thinking that it felt like cheating. It felt like using a graphing calculator to solve polynomials in high school. The only other languages I'd used in class were C, C++, Java, and 68K assembler, and it was hard to shake the idea that serious programming was supposed to be painful and low-level.