I find working with C++ a struggle against syntax and programmers who know it better than me and working with Java a struggle against boredom (from seeing dupli

I find working with C++ a struggle against syntax and programmers who know it better than me and working with Java a struggle against boredom (from seeing duplicated code all over the place). Rich Hickey did not bring joy and aesthetics to software development, it was already there before he was even born -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language) What he did, he made it more popular and more accessible which is at least as important.