>When embarking on a project, you do not often know everywhere it will take you. If you start with a language that won't go some places, your project can't go t

>When embarking on a project, you do not often know everywhere it will take you. If you start with a language that won't go some places, your project can't go there. If it needs to go there to succeed, you have doomed it at the outset. Yes. That's why an extremely flexible language, like Lisp, is an asset in those cases. >The hardest lesson to learn seems to be that GC is poison. Yes, the poison that kills a wide spectrum of memory bugs. And makes difficult data structures reliable.